Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy said he does not know "whether or not it's enforceable. We have not had any test cases." Some policeman may live outside both radii, he added...
...mother, who contrives the bogus legitimacy test to foil Winifred as she has foiled all previous applicants for her son's hand, is rather simply played by Judy Banks. The character requires bitchiness and vanity, two qualities which Banks humorously displays in her first scene. However, Banks fails to develop her character any further, so the only potentially evil elements in the play ends up harmless and benign...
...chilly water just before they germinated, and claimed a miraculous conversion: the seedlings were turned into spring wheat, which matures more rapidly and thus can produce greater yields. By such tactics, he insisted, more crops could be planted under harsh Russian climatic conditions. But while such "vernalization" worked under test conditions, it failed on a large scale. Despite Lysenko's insistence, there was no evidence of any innate genetic changes; he had merely induced a single generation of wheat to mature a little more rapidly...
...best, Burt's methods were incredibly sloppy. The raw test sheets on the twin studies were among papers stuffed into half a dozen tea chests and later destroyed. Many of his professional articles do not give primary data, referring readers to unpublished reports. Some of those reports, says Kamin, are at least as hard to find as are Howard and Conway...
...powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...