Bootblack Stand
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election. Published in August, it focuses...
...I realize that your publication of this letter was an attempt at political assassination of me by conveying to the people the fallacious notion that I write letters to fat cat elitists and running dogs...
...Herrnstein as _9 -Pigeunman" -- mosi of his laboratory...
...in the September 1971 issue of The Atlantic...
...Herrnstein recounts the development of intelligence tests and reviews some of the literature on the concept of intelligence, the relations between intelligence, education and socio-economic status and the effect of environment and heredity on intelligence...
...research has been on pigeons -- the poster misrepresented what he says in his article...
...One poster, many copies of which appeared on the Harvard campus during lhe first semester of this past academic year, was a "'Wanted" poster produced by the Harvard chapter of SDS and Harvard's radical University Action Group (UAG...
...Dear Mr...
...And, certainly, I would have caught on to the real source had I but read the newspaper at the time your letter arrived in our offices...
...In his article, Mr...
...GWP Professor of Psychology at Harvard University...
...Muskie: You were running against an unemployed about-to-be divorced Catholic poet...
...Jensen and others that about eighty per cent of the variation in intelligence is attributable to heredity...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...For example, the poster said that, in his article, Mr...
...Herrnstein offers this definition: 'Blacks: A low-capacity residue unable to master even the common occupations.' " What Mr...
...Who would throw an antitrust suit for money that didn't even go into their own personal bank account...
...At one point, he puts his argument in the form of a "'syllogism": 1. If differences in mental abilities are inherited, and 2. If success requires those abilities, and 3. If earnings and prestige depend on Success, 4. Then social standing (which reflects earnings and prestige) will be based to some extent on'inherited differences among people...
...Senator Name Withheld Evansville, Indiana Dear Senator Name Withheld: You have me wrong...
...can be attributed to genetic differences between blacks and whites...
...Herrnstein has been given the works...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...You see, at that time there was an escape by several patients from the Indiana State Insane Asylum...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...Those...
...Herrnstein really says in his article is: "'As the wealth and complexity of human society grow, there" will be precipitated out of the mass of humanity a low-capacity (intellectual and otherwise) residue that may be unable to master the common occupations, cannot compete for success and achievement, and are most likely to be born The Alternative June--September 1972 21...
...He notes the efforts of reformers who hope to achieve classlessness by improving social conditions and making the environments in which people live similar or even identical...
...Herrnstein came under attack following the publication of his article "I.Q...
...Incidentally, one of the patients is still at large...
...The paradox is that, in a meritocratic society, efforts to eliminate classes based at least partially on non-genetic differences help to produce or reinforce classes based largely on genetic differences...
...Herrnstein states that "Jensen's two papers leave little doubt about the heritability of I.Q...
...When he considers the extent to which intelligence is a product of environment or heredity, he takes up two articles by Arthur R. Jensen, a professor at the University of Califoria at Berkeley and another object of the SDS campaign...
...E. Muskie Dear Mr...
...Herrnstein believes "classlessness is elusive because people vary and compete for gain -economic and otherwise...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...Since the publication of his article, Mr...
...senators run me over the coals and its impossible to get a word out edgewise with all those $f*&?!$* newsmen around...
...Herrnstein agrees with Mr...
...Herrnstein lists five "'corollaries" to this -'syllogism" and he then concludes that "the syllogism and its corollaries point to a future in which social classes not only continue but become ever more solidly built on inborn differences...
...Besides characterizing Mr...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of ~oubles...
...Had I been aware of it I would have been more attentive to their mischief...
...Plunkitt: !&?*$!($, you should be able to help me out...
...On the other hand, there has been much controversy over the extent to which racial differences in I.Q...
...But, as he points out, reducing the effect of environment on variations in intelligence necessarily increases that of heredity...
...I never would do anything to hinder your gorgeous career, for it has provided vast amusement to me throughout the years...
...I expect he will be nabbed when he enters the governor's race this fall...
...Beard: Some time ago, I pointed out the difference between honest graft and dishonest graft and as I said, "I seen my chances and I took 'era...
...I should have known that the letter was not your work...
...It is titled Escape: A New Demand Response System...
...As that letter made me sound stupid and unsympathetic to the problems of the people I demand an immediate retration from your column...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Now I never wrote that letter, and, in fact, I rarely write at all, having only recently learned how to spell my name...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...among North American and Western European whites, whom most data on the subject describe," and he notes that there has been little controversy over this finding...
...Herrnstein advances an argument about the role of inherited intelligence in a society in which success is based on merit...
...I say by happenstance because I never read, for I realize that so much more can be learned by just talking to folks and that printed matter is elitist and the work of fat cats who lack compassion and understanding for the people...
...How can I re-establish my reputation as a dignified, honest lady lobbyist...
...Indeed, I was surprised to see that you actually wrote a letter, but then I thought you might have put one of your enlightened aides on the project...
...At Harvard, radicals involved in the anti-Herrnstein campaign have held meetings, passed out leaflets, and put up posters...
...Plunkitt: Why does no one remember that I stormed through the Illinois Primary with a landslide 63 per cent...
...Herrnstein argues that, given the current state of knowledge about the matter, nothing conclusive can be said right now but he maintains that, given _9 "sufficient ingenuity and hard work," knowledge about this matter can be substantially improved...
...Frankly this whole Fur thing sounds silly to me...
...Dita Beard Dear Mrs...
...Plunkitt: It has come to my attention, quite by happenstance, that a letter allegedly signed by me and written on Senate stationery was published in your May column...
Vol. 5 • June 1972 • No. 9
