Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kamin said that studies of identical twins and of adopted children isolating gender from environmental intelligence factors were so faulted and biased that they were "unworthy of scientific consideration...
...Kamin said, "It is conceivable that there are cognitive processes of some kind that are highly heritable," but that we cannot measure these processes with an I.Q. test...
...Kamin said it would be a "waste of time" to conduct a study of the heritability of intelligence even if it were to be done properly, for "inheritability really has no meaning...
Even if intelligence is transmitted mostly through the genes, the use of compensatory education would still make up for a low intelligence, Kamin said...
...Kamin summarized the history of intelligence testing in the United States and said that it had been used as "an instrument for the oppressing the poor, foreign born and racial minorities in this country...