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...that heritability must be referred to particular populations and, more important, that for the question of genetic differences between races, it really makes no difference what value of heritability you suppose for the white population. Indeed, at one point in the article I even allowed that the heritability of IQ among white Americans could be 100 per cent for all the difference it makes to the question of race. I was willing to grant a high heritability of IQ for American whites because, for the purpose of exposing Mr. Jensen's particular brand of nonsense, it was not worth disputing...
...star-crossed lovers and their experience with a flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost barometer, a Firesign Theatre-type game show called "Justify Your Existence" and a Kafkaesque IQ test. The show does have a plot, however disguised it is in these absurd digressions...
...theory he labels dysgenics. He defines it as "retrogressive evolution through the disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged." One of its controversial contentions is that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intellectual capacity. Another is that bonuses should be paid to persons with less than an average IQ who are voluntarily sterilized...
Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, is author of IQ and the Meritocracy...
...Freedom of speech" cannot be invoked to defend William Shockley against those who forced the cancellation of his debate with Roy Innis. Professor Shockley has been given much freedom--in media groups--to state a theory based on the most meager data relating IQ to race. The theory has been discussed again and again with no major addition or revision of the data, to the point where objections by serious geneticists are grouped under "opponents of Shockley's theory" or "alternative explanations...