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...others. This is where the marshmallows come in. It seems that the ability to delay gratification is a master skill, a triumph of the reasoning brain over the impulsive one. It is a sign, in short, of emotional intelligence. And it doesn't show up on an IQ test...
...anything but the life foreshadowed by 95 pages of McVeigh's academic records from the Starpoint Central School District in Lockport, New York, near the Canadian border. According to the documents Jones released to TIME, McVeigh was a bright (IQ 128, above average), hardworking student who got sloppy at times but earned mostly A's and B's through high school, falling just outside the top 20% of his class, which disqualified him for the training he wanted as a computer programmer. More striking are the descriptions of a likable youngster limned year after year in the handwritten evaluations...
...explained that IQ was a heritable trait, but not a completely genetically determined one despite popular misconception...
...know that caste-like minorities [minorities who accept society's view of themselves as inferior] have lower IQs than others," said Block "but when they emigrate to other countries, their IQ goes up to match other inhabitants of that country [who share their ethnicity or national origin but not their old caste-status...
Block criticized Murray and Herrnstein's extrapolation of data on white IQs, and said that the dearth of scientific evidence on the inheritability of IQ in Blacks further weakened the book...