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...discovery of its factual underpinning very precisely, to 1947. Geologist Frank Reeves, then working for the Vacuum Oil Company, was conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin when he spotted the crater near Wolfe Creek. "He thought it was volcanic at first," says his daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were an anthropologist's treasure trove. Since then she has been...
From Peggy Sanday's Fraternity Gang Rape to studies last year in the journals Sex Roles and Family Relations and surveys by the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Washington Monthly, researchers find that fraternal organizations are the greatest culprits in on-campus violence...
...Sanday's report, financed by a $61,576 grant from the U.S. Office of Education, is based on her 1971 examination of the records of more than 2,000 children (45% black, 55% white) who had just completed the ninth grade in Pittsburgh public schools. After plotting the changes in the students' IQ scores from 1962-70 as they moved through the largely segregated schools, she noted a significant trend. The scores of blacks in schools with mostly black pupils worsened steadily between kindergarten and eighth grade; the scores of whites in predominantly white schools, in addition...
That finding would seem to strengthen the Jensen-Shockley argument. But Sanday also found that the IQ scores of the handful of blacks attending middle-class schools improved, while the scores of whites in lower-class schools declined. For example: scores for whites in schools where most pupils were from middle-class families rose from a mean of 105.5 in kindergarten to a mean of 108.7 in sixth grade; scores for blacks in similar schools went from a mean of 95 in kindergarten to 98.2 in sixth grade. But in schools where most students were in the lowest...
...Sanday therefore argues that it is not race but class that influences IQ. She points out that "IQs are simply a measure of what you need to do well in the mainstream culture of white middle-class America." Because many blacks are excluded from this mainstream by racial prejudice and class segregation, they never have a chance to acquire the information and mental attitudes and skills that lead to success on IQ tests. The same exclusion also has its impact on preschool-age children, she says. That accounts for the lower IQ scores of blacks in kindergarten. In sum, Sanday...