Word: iq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bell Curve suggests links between race and intelligence, represented by IQ scores...
...students picketed lectures for Herrnstein's class after he wrote a controversial article about IQ...
...true to a limited extent that IQ plays a role as a kind of capacity to learn, but it's not a measure of actual learning," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus Daniel Bell, who argued against some of Herrnstein's earlier work in a 1976 book. "To use it as a generalized tool, like a measuring rod or stick, would be wrong...
Herrnstein made his name in behavioral science, not in research about IQ, Heyman said...
...controversy over Herrnstein's work is nothing new. In 1971, he first proposed that genetic factors such as IQ could create social stratification in societies increasingly based upon achievement...