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...college admissions officers. Since SAT scores are good statistical predictors of scholastic performance in the freshman year, they are clearly relevant to the selection process. I agree with Henry Dyer, a recently retired vice-president of Educational Testing Service, that tests of specific competence are more valuable than IQ tests (e.g., the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler), which are intended to assess hypothesized innate qualities underlying cognitive performance. (Belief in the validity of such assessments rests on pre-scientific views concerning human intelligence and its development.) I also agree with Mr. Dyer's view that tests of specific kinds...
...single group is young lawyers (sniff's a BND personnel officer: "Lawyers think they can do anything"). Most of the applicants were weeded out early, including one 13-year-old aspiring James Bond. This week a handful of survivors will be selected for training after final tests for IQ, language ability and extemporaneous-speaking talent-presumably on the assumption that spies must sometimes talk their way out of tight places. Most will fill routine assignments at BND headquarters in the Bavarian village of Pullach. But a few will be sent out as "spooks...
...academic question, concerning the statistical heritability of IQ (which he equates to intelligence) is no longer merely academic. It is now a major factor in arguments that social class stratification is genetically determined. It has become an important issue in the rhetoric of politics and race, and Herrnstein's theory, because it comes from Harvard, and because it is backed with strings of figures (no matter how questionable their source), is particularly prominent...
Regardless of Herrnstein's original intentions in publicizing his theories of high IQ heritability ("I have never written about racial differences," he said last week), he now has a social and moral responsibility to counter the racial "misinterpretations" of his work. And an open debate with eminent population geneticist Richard Lewontin, professor of Biology, would be a good first step...
...enormous effort to be fair." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite adopts a more stoical attitude: "This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read the magazine with interest, if not affection...