Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rented computers in a windowless warren 30 floors up in the World Trade Center, analysts spent Election Day sifting the results of more than 10,000 field interviews by exit pollers who questioned voters as they emerged from 1,039 polling places across the country. By 11:45 a.m., Murray Edelman, the veteran director of the operation, expressed astonishment that for the first time in the 12-year history of exit polling, a clear majority of voters said they had cast ballots for a Republican candidate for Congress. Distrusting their data, Edelman and his colleagues double-checked individual precincts...
...Bell Curve, which was coauthored by political scientist Charles S. Murray '65 and late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein, claims that intelligence, as measured by lQ scores, is strongly correlated with race...
...curious as to how Murray and Herrnstein can be attacked for their efforts to promote discussion on the matter, and then have the most vocal critics turn around and make [claims] about [the superiority] of Blacks in terms of mental, physical and spiritual abilities," Pidot said, alluding to a letter Clarke wrote to The Crimson last month...
...questioned the accuracy of studies used by Murray and Herrnstein to make the case for inherited intelligence, and he enumerated several studies offering counter-examples...
...modern liberals, of course, don't worship the god of the Founders," McGuire said. "They worship the god of egalitarianism. And liberals today are wailing, gnashing their teeth, staging demonstrations on the steps of Widener, all because Murray and Herrnstein dare to say that their god is dead...