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The Jensen Uproar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Antony Flew
Antony Flew
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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In the winter of 1969 the Harvard Educational Review published a long article by Professor Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley. In this article Jensen reviewed the psychological evidence bearing upon the question ‘How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?’ The original publication occasioned an enormous coast to coast brouhaha of protest and denunciation; including tyre-slashing, slogan-painting, telephoned abuse and threats, and strident demands to ‘Fire’ or even to ‘Kill Jensen’. The author has now republished this offending article, along with several shorter contributions in the same area, under the title Genetics and Education. He has also supplied, in addition to a full collection of References for the papers included, a Bibliography of the controversy, two Indices, and a 67 page Preface.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 48 , Issue 183 , January 1973 , pp. 63 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1973

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References

1 Jensen, Arthur, Genetics and Education (London: Methuen, 1972). Pp. viii + 379. Price £3.50.Google Scholar

2 Richardson, K. and Spears, D. (eds.), Race, Culture and Intelligence (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972). Pp. 205. Price £0.45.Google Scholar

3 See, for instance, Hudson, W. D. (ed.), The Is/Ought Question (London: Macmillan, 1969).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Moynihan, D. P., ‘Employment, income, and the ordeal of the Negro family’, The Negro American, Parsons, T. and Clark, K. B. (eds.) (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).Google Scholar