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Similarly, for the young, the contours of the presidency seemed too large to measure. After Inauguration Day 1953, there was a superhero in the White House uttering homilies that few could dispute, in a language that fewer could even comprehend. (Editor Oliver Jensen was moved to rewrite the Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country...") The private sector was as confusing as the federal. It was the time of ad lingo, when ideas were things that...
Lewontin emphasized the necessity of exposing what he called the fraudulent nature of Jensen's reasoning...
...Jensen maintained in his article that compensatory education had failed and that this failure could be due to an inherent intellectual disadvantage of members of lower income strata and minority groups. The article was published in the Harvard Educational Review...
Lewontin examined the methodology of an article by professor of Psychology at Berkeley, Arthur Jensen, entitled, "How Much Can We Do to Boost I.Q. and School Performance...
Some academicians, like Arthur Jensen, William Shockley, and Richard Herrnstein, say racial differences in I.Q. test scores show that black people may be genetically inferior to whites. The evidence that has been advanced to support this claim is entirely worthless. Jensen himself, in a recent article in Behavior Genetics (April, 1974) has conceded that the basic data gathered years ago by Cyril Burt--the evidence Jensen himself used to prove his hereditarian theories--is spurious. Furthermore, the I.Q. test themselves are notoriously biased against black people...