Word: iq
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...first year, over 7,800 New England college students paid to have Operation Match pair them up, according to a Crimson article at the time. Datamatch’s predecessor also strived to make lasting pairs based on traits like prestige, security, power, and IQ...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
Second, TIME states "most scholars today believe that so-called intelligence and achievement differences stem largely from environmental factors." A recent survey in the Public Interest, responded to by 661 experts, found that those interviewed "believe 60% of the individual differences in IQ in the American white population to be due to differences in genes." When asked to give their opinion of the source of the black-white difference in IQ, 53% of those interviewed believe that genes and environment are both involved, compared with only 17% who attribute the cause entirely to the environment. Arthur R. Jensen Professor...
Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today's workplace. "Most innovations today involve large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures...
...Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today's workplace. "Most innovations today involve large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures...