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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrases as 'I.Q.'s substantial heritability' or 'the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent,' despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted in technical journals because there is nothing to refute." In the book The Fallacy of I.Q. (edited by C. Senna and published in 1973), the same Professor Lewontin wrote "the weight of evidence from a variety of correlations between relatives puts the heritability of I.Q. in various human populations between .6 and .8. For reasons of his argument, Jensen prefers the higher value but it is not worth quibbling over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERRNSTEIN ON GARBAGE | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

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