Word: jensenism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Brien, UConn graduate student in Anthropology, called the theories of Laughlin and Ginsburg "more subtly racist and more plausibly scientific than those of Jensen, Shockley and Herrnstein...