Example sentences for: herrnstein

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  • High scorers on mental tests do "bunch up" (as Herrnstein and Murray put it) in elite-university student bodies.

  • But Herrnstein and Murray's method of figuring socioeconomic status seems designed to low-ball its influence, as explains.

  • Herrnstein and Murray used quasi-nutty studies that support their position (as Charles Lane demonstrated in the New York Review of Books ), and ignore mainstream studies that contradict it (as Richard Nisbett showed in the New Republic ). The data in The Bell Curve are consistently massaged to produce conservative conclusions; not once is a finding that contradicts the main thesis reported in the text.

  • Herrnstein and Murray, sounding like the souls of caution, write that "half a century of work, now amounting to hundreds of empirical and theoretical studies, permits a broad conclusion that the genetic component of IQ is unlikely to be smaller than 40 per cent or higher than 80 per cent.

  • The notion that IQ tests are completely useless never prevailed in liberal academia to nearly the extent that Herrnstein and Murray say.


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