Word: jensen
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...works of Herrnstein, Shockley, and Jensen show clear implications that they think eugenics programs will be necessary," Beckwith said...
Lorne Stamler blasted one from just inside the blue line past a somewhat bewildered Murray at 4:14 to make it 5-4 and Steve Jensen tied...
Freshman Milton Yasunga, wrestling at 126 Ibs., was pinned by Schoonover of Army in 2:11. Yasunga had been unable to compete in Harvard's last three meets because of an elbow injury. Wrestling in his first varsity match, junior Kelly Jensen, at 134 Ibs., fell to Horn of Yale...
Blacks as a group consistently score lower than whites on standard IQ tests. That is a fact no one can dispute. But the reason for the discrepancy has become a matter of heated dispute -sparked largely by the widely publicized theories of Psychologist Arthur Jensen and Physicist William Shockley. The two men suggest that genetic factors account for the differences. Others, like University of Pennsylvania Anthropologist Peggy Sanday, insist that the differences are environmental. Last week Sanday buttressed her case by reporting the results of her own study...
That finding would seem to strengthen the Jensen-Shockley argument. But Sanday also found that the IQ scores of the handful of blacks attending middle-class schools improved, while the scores of whites in lower-class schools declined. For example: scores for whites in schools where most pupils were from middle-class families rose from a mean of 105.5 in kindergarten to a mean of 108.7 in sixth grade; scores for blacks in similar schools went from a mean of 95 in kindergarten to 98.2 in sixth grade. But in schools where most students were in the lowest...