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...editorial for 16 March misrepresents, if not misquotes, my comment on the pointlessness of a debate with Professor Lewontin. Professor Lewontin has, to my knowledge, so far published only one paper on the heritability of I.Q. In it, he acknowledges that the existing data show the value to be in the range of .6 to .8. That has been approximately my estimate also, as well as that of virtually every other estimate in the technical literature. I see no value in debating a point not in dispute...
...Herrnstein's original intentions in publicizing his theories of high IQ heritability ("I have never written about racial differences," he said last week), he now has a social and moral responsibility to counter the racial "misinterpretations" of his work. And an open debate with eminent population geneticist Richard Lewontin, professor of Biology, would be a good first step...
...perhaps there's something more in Herrnstein's refusal to debate with Lewontin. "I don't have the professional depth that a professor of genetics like Lewontin has," he said last week in a telephone interview. Herrnstein is a professor of psychology; Lewontin is one of the most eminent population geneticists in the country...
...sounds as if an affair of "pseudo-science" (Lewontin's phrase) has burgeoned into an affair of passionate anger. Anger doesn't go away by wishing. Herrnstein is going to have to deal with the angers and fears his theories have aroused...
...open debate with Lewontin would clarify the issues. The debate in the journals, according to both men, is suffering from misinterpretations and misquotes...