Word: iq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest brilliant argument from our doctrinaire conservative friends on race relations ("Defending The Bell Curve," Opinion, Oct. 24, 1994). There is a genetic component to intelligence. Whites outscore Blacks on IQ tests. Therefore affirmative action. Head Start and abortion rights should be scrapped...
...fact is that educational achievement, not IQ scores, drives socioeconomic success. This is independent of the fact that there are environmental factors to intelligence and, when it comes to each of these factors, inner-city Black children get the shaft. Not to mention the other environmental factors like, family stability," that also impact educational achievement...
...Bell Curve, unlike the melanin theory, does ground itself in unassailable scientific facts (the proven difference in IQ between Blacks and whites). This does not, of course, make it correct...
Clarke then questioned the authors' motives for writing The bell Curve." The real issue at hand is not IQ," she said. "[The authors'] hidden agenda is aimed at eliminating welfare and hurting the poor...
...book claims that intelligence, as measured by IQ scores is strongly correlated with race. Murray and Herrnstein argue that social welfare spending is often futile, incapable of overcoming the challenges of lower intelligence...