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...countless allusions to such refutations or criticisms in articles like Dr. Benda's. The technical literature contains a veritable chorus of agreement on the fact that the I.Q. is heritable--not as heritable, let us say, as physical height, but more heritable than any other broad human psychological trait yet measured. Without a doubt, the confusion about I.Q.'s heritability is the controversy's most regrettable distortion. Geneticists who, in the technical literature, acknowledge I.Q.'s large genetic component refrain from adding their findings or judgments to the public debate, no doubt for fear of having articles like Benda...
Intransigence is not an Israeli monopoly, nor reasonableness a dominant trait in Arab policy. So interwoven are the rights and wrongs of the Arab and Israeli cases, so conflicting their claims to a twice-Promised Land, so much death and grief and hurt a part of existence to both peoples, so real their fears and so inescapable their hostility, that outsiders who arrive there to talk of evenhandedness, fair-mindedness and rational solutions find themselves instantly suspect for their naiveté. The most egregious assumption that outsiders make is that their detachment gives them superior wisdom. In fact, the intractable...
...causally related to mass murder. Harry Kozol, director of the Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dangerous Persons in Massachusetts, emphasizes that "while homosexual murders attract great attention, their incidence is rare." In mass murder, he has found, "sex doesn't seem to be the motivation." One trait that Kozol has found in common among mass murderers: "A certain homogeneity about the victims." Jack the Ripper, for example, invariably chose prostitutes, and the Boston Strangler (13 victims) selected mostly elderly women...
...Anderson quickly decided. In his view, the muckraker "has more confidence in America than most others." Why? Because his work teaches him to respect-and depend on -three American virtues: "First, the relative scarcity of corruption [a trait that will come as news to regular Anderson followers]. If it were the norm, it would not be news. Second, the probity of most citizens: if the majority found official corruption undisturbing, the cry of the reformer would become hollow. Third, the ultimate responsiveness to truth, when forced to the wall, of our governmental system...
...tests do not just measure "class background." If they did, then they would show a low, instead of a high, heritability. As any student of Social Sciences 15 (at least during my two-year stint) should have learned, a trait that has high heritability is relatively unaffected by existing environmental variables...