Letters to and from the Editor

Open minds and ideology.

“…I fail to understand how testing 15,000 children (or 15,000,000), reading any number of reports on compensatory education, and least of all learning some behavior genetics could lead anyone to make the last claim. Thoday (1969), Gibson, Mascie-Taylor, and Thompson (1972), Lewontin (1970), Cavalli-Sforza andBodmer (1971), Layzer (1974), and others have pointed out the insuperable obstacles, both theoretical and empirical, to making any quantitative claims of that nature about subpopulation differences, either between social classes or between races.…”