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Curt Mead, press coordinator for the rally, declined to make a crowd prediction. He did say, however, that a crowd of fewer than 8000 "would be an extreme disappointment," and that the committee would be extremely pleased if more than 15,000 showed up.

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Mark C. Frazier, S | Title: Voter Rallies Set for Today; Presidential Hopefuls to Speak | 10/8/1971 | See Source »

Herrnstein bases his prediction largely on the basis of the high heritability of I.Q. He cites intelligence tests which measured the I.Q.'s of identical twins who were brought up in different homes. The data he cites is drawn from a study in the Harvard Educational Review, by Berkeley geneticist...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/24/1971 | See Source »

Hernstein bases his prediction largely on the basis of the high heritability of I.Q. He cites intelligence tests which measured the I.Q.'s of identical twins who were brought up in different homes. The data he cites is drawn from a study in the Harvard Educational Review, by Berkeley geneticist...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

"I've had only one idea in my life?a true idée fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible?the idea of having my own way. 'Control' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

It was this kind of thinking that influenced Watson. Drawing, too, on the work of Pavlov, he repudiated the subjective concepts of mind and emotion and described human behavior as a succession of physical reflex responses to stimuli coming from the environment. It was the environment alone, he felt, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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