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...mindless and abusive rhetoric of their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...
FORTY PER CENT of the pre-school age children in the slums of Santiago, Chile have IQ's of less than 80, their minds stunted by malnutrition. One-third of those who die each year in Chile are children. When Dr. Salvador Allende's Popular Unity Government took office in late 1970, one of its slogans was, "The only privileged ones will be the children...
Rooms painted with "ugly" colors -white, black and brown-had a negative effect, causing an average drop of 14 IQ points among children who played in them. Researchers found that the popular colors also stimulated alertness and creativity; white, black and brown playrooms made children duller...
...researchers observed two groups in nine color-coordinated rooms. During the same period, a separate control group played in a conventional kindergarten. After six months, the experimental groups, who had played in "beautifully" colored rooms with "beautifully" colored building blocks, had outstripped the controls by an average of 15 IQ points, even though the children in the control group had started out with slightly higher intelligence scores. After 18 months the experimental group was 25 points ahead...
...iconoclasts, including Psychologists Arthur Jensen and Richard Herrnstein, argue that intelligence is largely inherited and cannot be significantly improved by family, schooling or any other environmental factor. A furious debate is now raging over this assault on egalitarianism. Blacks in particular are upset because they feel that their lower IQ scores, as a group, are the result of discrimination and deprivation...