Word: validities
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That blacks on average score lower than whites on IQ tests is not disputed by anyone who has studied the scores. (The cumulative test results form a bell curve on a statistician's graph.) Everything from that point on is subject to challenge, including whether IQ tests are a valid measure of intelligence or even what intelligence is. Murray and Herrnstein side with those who believe IQ is real and reasonably measured by the available tests. Their truly inflammatory notions are in what follows. While they acknowledge that intelligence is shaped by both heredity and environment, they say heredity plays...
...month's end, however, he was Florida's Horatius at the immigration bridge, prevailing upon a reluctant Clinton to intern at Guantanamo those rafters plucked from the sea. Almost overnight, Chiles commandeered Florida's red-hot immigration debate and became the only gubernatorial Friend of Bill's with valid anti-Bill credentials...
Roiphe spends much of her time attempting to debunk a 1985 Ms. magazine study that found that one out of four women are the victims of rape or attempted rape. And while there are some valid criticisms of the Ms. study, Roiphe fails to address other, more conservative studies such as one conducted by the Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, that have found that 13 percent of adult American women--one in eight--have been raped at least once...
...surface this seems to be a valid reason. Arafat's supporters argue that if he wishes to retain popularity, and hence control, he must not antagonize a significant portion of the Palestinian people...
...convention stages, in tearful speeches -- is by now a common practice among politicians. An even more common practice is the neglect of one's family. Ambitious politicians almost by definition find more fulfillment in coffee klatches and subcommittee meetings than at Little League and the PTA. Quayle's quite valid critique of Murphy Brown and single parenthood is especially poignant coming from a man who spent so much time away from home during his two House terms that his wife confessed she often felt like a "single parent...