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...extent that multiple personalities are understood, it seems that Sybil's mind began creating alternative personages as a defense against her mother, who was a sadistic, child-battering schizophrenic. Brilliant (with an IQ of 170), yet mousy and depleted, Sybil finally embarked on psychoanalysis. Her doctor never quite knew which of her 16 personalities would turn up. After she underwent eleven years of analysis, treatments with sodium pentothal and hypnosis, the tribe of various selves merged into one coherent Sybil...
...summary, Herrnstein has not shown that IQ measures intelligence. Even assuming that IQ does measure intelligence, he has not shown that IQ is inherited. And even assuming that IQ is an inherited measure of intelligence, he has not shown that success depends upon high IQ. Thus, he has not given the slightest credence to his conclusion that social standing is based on inherited differences in intelligence...
...professional journals and refuses "ever again" to discuss his theory in public. Herrnstein has repeatedly denied social policy implications drawn from his description of a "less endowed" lower class. He reasserts in Commentary that any criticism is a misrepresentation: "Not many of my critics seemed to have read it ['IQ']. Perhaps not many people at all read it; it was, after all, rather long and tough going in spots. There seemed, in fact, to be a pattern: Those who gave clear signs of having read it rarely got excited, while those who got excited usually had not read it." Herrnstein...
...action last year was distortion and threat, says Herrnstein. This is not true. The assertion that critics did not read "IQ" is false. SDS sold over 2000 copies on campus and encouraged people to read it. He claims that SDS created an atmosphere of intimidation in Soc Sci 15. Herrnstein's refusal after the first lecture to allow any questions except those of clarification in fact prevented open discussion. Finally, Herrnstein says the campaign was the effort of ten or twelve who succeeded in convicing others of their distortion. Hundreds across the country signed statements deploring his racism...
...Bennett's article on Down's Syndrome she points out, in her initial listing of the characteristics of the condition, that low IQ is one of them. She then demonstrates, using the poignant example of Kathryn, that such a "child who manages to sneak by the preconceptions, although not of normal intelligence, is as sensitive, as creative and as loving, or more so, than his or her normal brothers and sisters." It should be pointed out that there is good evidence that IQ s of 100 (average) are attainable by afflicted children who have not been institutionalized. Kathryn's behavior...