Word: jensenism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high time: the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom has already been seriously eroded by the almost total abdication of responsibility in this matter over the two years since Dr. Jensen raised it to general prominence with his paper, published here in Cambridge. For these forces to now let the matter go by default would surely be to accept the coup de grace...
Based on these and other data Herrnstein says that Jensen and most other experts in the field agree that inheritance counts for about 80 per cent of an individual's I.Q., and all other factors around 20 per cent. including education, nutrition...
...said that his use of Jensen's statistics was entirely noncontroversial. "All Jensen did was to collect the figures of four standard identical twin studies from the 1920's. All I have done is use his conclusions based upon the data...
Herrnstein noted that his use of the statistics was different from Jensen's. Whereas Jensen was trying to determine the nature of the differences in biracial I.Q., Herrnstein was interested in the role I.Q. played in social standing...
Psychology professor E.B. Newman, current chairman of the Psychology Department, said that he knew Herrnstein had been quite concerned with the problem for a long time. Newman said he thought the final impetus was what Herrnstein felt was an over-reaction to Jensen's article...