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Lewontin said yesterday he expects the debate to cover "questions of genetics and IQ and other related subjects." He said the "genetics of human behavior is irrelevant" and called Davis a "Zealot for the genetical explanation for everything...
...government to run a railroad," let alone do a good job of sterilizing the nation's blacks. But Rusher never contested any of Shockley's theories. He did say that he and Shockley may "have some differences of opinion," but only on the point of the validity of using IQ scores as a measure of happiness--and that judgment "is merely a layman's perspective...
...turned against him. Done with the sort of street intelligence apparently alien to everyone involved with Report to the Commissioner, such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence on the force - his father was a cop, but standards have slipped since...
...uniform." The strange thing was that Berg played major league baseball at all. Unlike Stengel, who it is said became a ballplayer after discovering that he was a lefthanded dentistry student in a world of righthanded dental equipment, Berg was suited to do just about anything. He had an IQ that could not have been too far behind his career batting average of 243. He was competent in a dozen languages, including Latin and Sanskrit. He held a law degree and even practiced for a few off-seasons on Wall Street. He was charming, good-looking, witty and a connoisseur...
Once confined to IQ scores and academic grades, student records now bulge with so-called soft data: psychological profiles, personality ratings, disciplinary reports and family-relations evaluations. All of this information becomes part of the student's permanent file, yet parents are often denied an opportunity to see the records or to challenge what may be erroneous or misleading. Some examples...