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...case in the Spring of 1972, however. In September 1971. Herrnstein published an article in Atlantic Monthly magazine that provoked many protests the following spring by the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) and the Undergraduate Action Group (UAG). The article said that assuming that variations of IQ are determined by genetic variations and that success in society and rising to the top of the hierarchy depends on IQ, then one can conclude, says Herrnstein, that the more one removes artificial social barriers to success then the more getting to the top depends on genetic...
...Each of them could express sharper opinions and then get corrected or put down or yelled at by the other. Also, as my two teen-age daughters grew older, they began complaining that I wasn't treating Wanda fairly. So now Wanda has acquired 60 to 70 additional IQ points, and the dialogue has become a moderately baroque version of a real debate...
...interesting demonstration of this theory was undertaken more than a decade ago by a team of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin. Struck by the fact that many of the mentally retarded children in a Milwaukee slum had retarded mothers, they took 40 infants whose mothers had IQs of less than 75 and put 20 of them in special day care centers. From the age of three months on, the children began getting lessons in language and arithmetic as well as various other kinds of stimulation. By the time they reached school age, their average IQ was more than...
...central problem in arriving at an answer is how to measure intelligence. Homo sapiens has a hard time devising IQ tests for its own species, much less trying to assess the brains of others. One trap: interpreting animal behavior in human terms. Notes Theodore Reed, former director of the National Zoo: "The public perception of animal intelligence abounds with anthropomorphic fantasies...
Some attribute the academic success of Asians to a genetic superiority. In his controversial study last year, British Psychologist Richard Lynn claimed that the Japanese score eleven points higher on the Wechsler IQ test than the American average. Their superior performance on tests of block designs, mazes and picture arrangement, however, may be related to the early study of the complex ideograms that compose their alphabet...