Word: iq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has persuaded Perle to stay in touch as a consultant, but concedes that "this place won't be the same without Richard." Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger agrees, noting sardonically, "I'm glad he's leaving, but his departure lowers discernibly the average IQ of this Administration...
Professor of Psychiatry Robert Coles '50, Senior Research Associate in Education Howard E. Gardner '65 and Associate Professor of Education Carol Gilligan all agreed that IQ tests are too one-dimensional to test contemporary society...
...IQ tests causes us to focus primarily on two types of learning, linguistic and mathematical skills," Gardner warned, the narrow focus results in an "individually centered curriculum," tailor-made for IQ tests...
Pulitzer prize winner Coles agreed with Gardner on the narrowness of IQ tests. "There is more intelligence than just numbers and letters. There is parental, moral and ethical intelligence as well," he said. A lot of ordinary people survive without a lot of intelligence, he said. "It just depends on how we use the intelligence...
Other symposia scrutinized the university's attitude toward realities, racial and ethnic minorities; evaluated that much-maligned measure of intelligence, the IQ; and considered the likely fallout of the computer explosion...