Word: iq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentally-infirm elderly be exterminated to make room for smart people? Should the horrors of the Holocaust be ignored to rethink the old master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime was ruining public opinion regarding...
...book has drawn fire from ethnic groups across the country for the links it draws between race and IQ...
...remain disturbed by the authors' attempt to make inferences about native cognitive ability on the basis of IQ scores, and was not convinced by their efforts to do the same. As I reiterated at the debate, I remain firmly committed to our government's responsibility to offer a premier education to all of our nation's youth, but I am an equally strong opponent of affirmative action programs which seek to "level the playing field" after the fact...
...define away differences in IQ between genders, why can't we [do the same for races]," Ho asked...
...also rejected the book's claim that IQ differences are hereditary...