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...reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender ’27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid from 1952 to 1960, described...
...might not have believed your mother when she told you that eating fish would make you smarter, but according to a new study, if she ate seafood while pregnant, your IQ might have increased.Last week, a team of researchers led by a professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) published a scientific paper stating that mothers who eat seafood during pregnancy have smarter children.The study, published in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is a new wrinkle in the debate over the safety of fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends...
...with data interpretation, and the writing section promises to be shorter and more analytical. It is heartening to see such a widely used assessment retooled to evaluate reasoning abilities acquired over time through assiduous undergraduate work rather than the same innate talents measured by the SAT and other disguised IQ tests. While standardized test scores can never succinctly capture a candidate’s level of competence, these changes may at least enable the GRE to provide graduate schools with much more useful information than the current version. As an eminently irksome stage of the graduate school application process...
...African Language Systems are genetically based and not a dialect of English, the term genetically based is used according to the standard dictionary definition of has its origins in. It is not used to refer to human biology.' Say what? Next thing you know, dese folks be claimin' your IQ goes up if you has more melanin...
...came up from Florida yesterday, so I’ve probably got an adequate supply for the next few months. I keep the notebooks in four different colors, which in my mind relates to the seasons of the year. I’m now going to give you an IQ test. What season will this be [holds up blue notebook...