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Goldberger, Arthur S. – Educational Psychologist, 1976
Critically examines the portions of Arthur Jensen's books that concern Barbara Burks' 1928 study of adoptive families. Findings are that Burks' sample was highly selective, that her environmental measures were limited, and that Jensen has misrepresented the content and implications of her study. It is also shown that Jensen's estimates of…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Intelligence Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Miller, M. Sammy – Journal of Negro Education, 1976
Briefly reviews the content and impact of Arthur R. Jensen's 1969 Harvard Educational Review (HER) article How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement, noting that "the reaction stirred by this article" in the subsequent issues of HER "was sharp." Among the critics were J. M. V. Hunt, Jerome Kagan, David Elkind, while Carl Bereiter, James…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Research, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
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Carroll, John B. – Intelligence, 1978
Recent studies are examined for methodological adequacy in establishing dimensions of individual differences in information-processing abilities, and the theoretical problems involved in inferring psychological processes from individual difference dimensions. Methodological inadequacies include use of small samples, questionable procedures in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Intelligence Differences
Taylor, Howard F. – Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1976
Presents a brief, quick-reference check list of methodological errors, fallacies, mistakes, and instances of out-and-out trickery that are found in recent well-known studies of IQ, IQ heritability, and race differences, focusing primarily upon the works of psychologist Jensen, Herrnstein, Eysenck, including selected works of William Shockley and…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Intelligence Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Horn, John L.; Donaldson, Gary – American Psychologist, 1977
Concludes "that the one seemingly serious effort of Baltes and Schaie to contest the points of the Horn-Donaldson criticisms only brings us around to the same sad conclusion: that no matter how one looks at the Schaie data, it suggests that, on the average, there is age decline in many important abilities of intelligence." (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Cohort Analysis, Intelligence Differences
Miller, LaMar P.; Sommerfeld, Donald A. – 1970
This paper focuses on the use of the variable race in educational research. Researchers are clearly considered to have the right to choose their variables. But, the use of race in a nonscholarly fashion is held to be professionally inadequate and often detrimental to black Americans. For years, researchers using race to make comparison s between…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Students, Cluster Grouping, Disadvantaged Youth
Loehlin, John C.; And Others – 1975
This book is considered to provide a sober, balanced, and scholarly examination of the evidence that bears on the role of genetic and environmental factors in the determination of group differences in ability in the United States. The first chapter provides something of the background and recent history of the concern with racial-ethnic…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Environmental Influences, Intelligence Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy