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Jensen and Flynn

Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 9:47 AM

President Obama seems dead set on his course of divisiveness rather than bringing us together as many hoped electing a "black" president would do. Very sad. The whole liberal establishment both in the democrat and in the republican parties seem to be set on keeping people ignorant. You can be the smartest person in the world but if you are ignorant of reality, you will make stupid decisions.

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Jensen and Flynn

Anyone who has followed the decades-long controversies over the role of genes in IQ scores will recognize the names of the two leading advocates of opposite conclusions on that subject-- Professor Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley and Professor James R. Flynn, an American expatriate at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

What is so unusual in the academic world of today is that Professor Flynn's latest book, "Are We Getting Smarter?" is dedicated to Arthur Jensen, whose integrity he praises, even as he opposes his conclusions. That is what scholarship and science are...

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