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...Stanford professor of electrical engineering, a Nobel Laureate in physics, has claimed IQ tests show that whites are genetically more intelligent than blacks, and that intelligence can be measured by the percentage of Caucasian blood in an individual...
...essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status. Nor do such qualities depend upon the amount of his schooling or "brains"; IQ tests do not measure character. This may be why William F. Buckley, that maverick among snobs, would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone book than a similar number of Harvard faculty members...
Pirsig's Phaedrus was a lonely man who, despite an IQ of 170, had trouble with his studies. He began at 15 as a college freshman studying science, but he soon could not keep his ability to reason within any accepted academic context. From hypotheses he would get not proofs but only more hypotheses. Because his mind kept searching for an underlying universal principle, he switched to philosophy and eventually went to India to study oriental thought. Phaedrus-Pirsig never thought small. His aim was to do nothing less than revamp the whole scientific method that operated from...
...article in Science addressed a different set of issues: the mathematical and biological underpinnings of the theory that geneticists use to estimate heritabilities of phenotypic traits, and the applicability of that theory to IQ test scores. One frequently reads (for example, in letters to The Crimson) that there is a consensus among quantitative geneticists that the heritability of IQ is in the range .6 to .8. This conclusion, if true, would mean that most of the IQ variation in the white U.S. population results from genetic differences. My Science article argued that "heritability of IQ" is a strictly meaningless concept...
Finally, the Science article emphasized the importance of recent studies showing that appropriate educational and social programs can greatly accelerate the cognitive development of children from poverty backgrounds. The evidence already accumulated is extremely encouraging, and flatly contradicts the doctrine that IQ measures an innate capacity and that low IQ indicates an inability to acquire "higher" cognitive skills. David Layzer