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...flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt. "These may include differences in intelligence, but such differences may equally be due to cultural determinants. The question simply remains open." Harvard Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew points out that "while the intelligence test means of the two races are still divergent, the range of performance-from the most retarded idiot to the most brilliant genius-is much the same in the two groups. Some Negro children achieve IQs into the gifted range (130 or over...
Louis Day Hicks will very probably lose the November mayorality election, Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, said last night...
...Pettigrew, who in the past has conducted surveys in Boston relative to Mrs. Hicks' voting strength, predicted that she "will get 45 or 46 per cent of the vote, but no more...
...Tuesday's election, Mrs. Hicks received 28 per cent of the votes. An earlier Pettigrew poll was remarkably accurate. It showed that 27 per cent of the city's voters would readily vote for Mrs. Hicks for mayor...
...Pettigrew expects Mrs. Hicks's additional votes to come from the city's Italian districts, where her neighborhood school idea is popular. In the preliminary election most of these votes went to City Councilor Christopher A. Iannella, He also expects her to pick up votes that went to the other heavy losers in the preliminary--candidates whose political complexion resembles hers. "But even giving her most of these votes leaves her with about 45 per cent. She could pick up one or two more percentage points from a larger turnout," he said...