Word: iq
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...description of events was a classic case of "confabulation," in which a hypnotized subject fills in gaps in his memory with information sometimes suggested to him by police or the hypnotist. Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist, says that Forney was particularly susceptible to suggestion, given his borderline IQ of 74 and a history of mental problems in his family. The psychiatrist, who has for years been conducting a relentless campaign against police hypnosis, called the North Carolina case one of the worst abuses he has seen. Testimony from witnesses like Forney is especially dangerous, he explains, because even...
Point by point, the authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated...
Most importantly. Not in Our Genes questions the basic premise that IQ tests measure intelligence at all. Most psychologists today realize that IQ differences in various ethnic and racial groups demonstrate not an inherent discrepancy in the intelligence of these groups, but a fault in the test itself...
...case in the Spring of 1972, however. In September 1971. Herrnstein published an article in Atlantic Monthly magazine that provoked many protests the following spring by the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) and the Undergraduate Action Group (UAG). The article said that assuming that variations of IQ are determined by genetic variations and that success in society and rising to the top of the hierarchy depends on IQ, then one can conclude, says Herrnstein, that the more one removes artificial social barriers to success then the more getting to the top depends on genetic...
...Each of them could express sharper opinions and then get corrected or put down or yelled at by the other. Also, as my two teen-age daughters grew older, they began complaining that I wasn't treating Wanda fairly. So now Wanda has acquired 60 to 70 additional IQ points, and the dialogue has become a moderately baroque version of a real debate...