From: Brian Phillips (deepbluehalo@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 01:49:23 MDT
All,
Rather than dragging out study after study after study
from peer reviewed specialty journals to reply to
Harvey's trashing of The Bell curve I have opted
for a quicker route. Certainly I (and probably Rafal)
can refer anyone who cares, to more specific info.
I apologize if this Bell Curve discussion has been
annoying to the list and I will likely drop the thread
after this post.
The following is an excerpt from a public statment made
by some of the leading figures in intelligence research in
the US. , made in the Wall Street Journal.
>From the intro
<Mainstream Science on Intelligence
The Wall Street Journal
December 13, 1994
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Since the publication of "The Bell Curve," many commentators have offered
opinions about human intelligence that misstate current scientific evidence.
Some conclusions dismissed in the media as discredited are actually firmly
supported.
This statement outlines conclusions regarded as mainstream among researchers
on intelligence, in particular, on the nature, origins, and practical
consequences of individual and group differences in intelligence. Its aim is
to promote more reasoned discussion of the vexing phenomenon that the
research has revealed in recent decades. The following conclusions are fully
described in the major textbooks, professional journals and encyclopedias in
intelligence.>>
The full text of all these claims may be found at
http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/support-bell-curve.ht
ml
In all important points the scientists listed below support the science
behind the
Bell Curve (though obviously the POLICY suggestions of the authors are not
addressed, nor should they be). In all important points the scientists
listed below
agree with the points I have made to Harvey (they are, after all, where I
got my
opinions on the matter to begin with!)
Anyone interested may read the conclusions at the above link. Below is a
list of
the authors along with a short blurb I have inserted for each for those on
the list
who are laypersons or are not familiar with the leading lights of psychology
and the
specialty of human abilities measurement.
The original piece included only the scientists names and their
institutional affiliation.
The other commentary I have added.
Regards,
Brian
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The following professors-all experts in intelligence and allied fields-have
signed this statement:
Richard D. Arvey, University of Minnesota
(industrial/organizational psychologist, consultant to NASA, research focus
is
genetic components of leadership and job satisfaction)
Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., University of Minnesota
(Director of the Minnesota Center for Twins and Adoption Research..*the*
largest most extant study of twins from a psychometric perspective, PI for
the
Minnesota Twins Registry)
John B. Carroll, U.N.C. at Chapel Hill
(educational psychologist and applied linguist, developer of the
Three-stratum Model of Human Cognitive Abilities.)
Raymond B. Cattell, University of Hawaii
(giant in the field. Also a fixture in the texts that touch on ability,
trait theory, and measurement(
David B. Cohen, U.T. at Austin
(clinical psychologist, teachs clinical and evolutionary psychology
at Austin, major contributions in the area of parental influence on
children, despite his name apparently he can be guilty by association
due to his scientific views)
Rene W. Dawis, University of Minnesota
(mostly in the area of career development, I am not familar with her work)
Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve U.
(work focused on mental retardation)
Marvin Dunnette, University of Minnesota
(emeritus, insutrial/organization psychology, research in assessment and
vocational selection)
Hans Eysenck, University of London
(giant in the field. His work is a fixture in every Intro to Psych
textbooks + Psyc of Personality and any Measurement/Testing text.
. Incredibly prolific. native German, run out of Germany
by the 3rd Reich! )
Jack Feldman, Georgia Institute of Technology
(social psychologist, research involves job satisfaction and motivation,
performance appraisal, stereotyping and attribution processes, and
cognitive complexity)
Edwin A. Fleishman, George Mason University
(emeritus, past president of the International Association of Applied
Psychology (IAAP)
and the APA's Divisions of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, &
Evaluation and Measurement)
Grover C. Gilmore, Case Western Reserve U.
(extensive work funded by NatInst of Aging on gero-neuropsychology)
Robert A. Gordon, Johns Hopkins University
(sociologist, on of the investigators in Project for the Study of
Intelligence and Society)
Linda S. Gottfredsen, University of Delaware
(also a sociologist, working with Gordon on the P.S.I.S.)
Richard J. Haier, U.C. Irvine
(I think he is on te medical faculty, his stuff is in neuroimaging)
Garrett Hardin, U.C. Berkeley
(prof emeritus of human ecology, prolific author and a personal hero of
mine )
***The rest of the list is equally impressive, Jenson and Thorndike in
particular,
however I have to go to pa kua practice now***
Robert Hogan, University of Tulsa
Joseph M. Horn, U.T. at Austin
Lloyd G. Humphreys, U.Ill. at Champaign-Urbana
John E. Hunter, Michigan State University
Seymour W. Itzkoff, Smith College
Douglas N. Jackson, U. of Western Ontario
James J. Jenkins, U. of South Florida
Arthur R. Jensen, U.C. Berkeley
Alan S. Kaufman, University of Alabama
Nadeen L. Kaufman, Cal. School of Prof. Pshch., S.D.
Timothy Z. Keith, Alfred University
Nadine Lambert, U.C. Berkeley
John C. Loehlin, U.T. at Austin
David Lubinski, Iowa State University
David T. Lykken, University of Minnesota
Richard Lynn, University of Ulster at Coleraine
Paul E. Meehl, University of Minnesota
R. Travis Osborne, University of Georgia
Robert Perloff, University of Pittsburg
Robert Plomin, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Cecil R. Reynolds Texas A&M University
David C. Rowe University of Arizona
J. Philippe Rushton U. of Western Ontario
Vincent Sarich, U.C. Berkeley
Sandra Scarr, University of Virginia
Frank L. Schmidt University of Iowa
Lyle F. Schoenfeldt, Texas A&M University
James C. Sharf, George Washington University
Julian C. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University
Del Theissen, U.T. at Austin
Lee A. Thompson, Case Western Reserve U.
Robert M. Thorndike, Western Washington University
Philip Anthony Vernon, U. of Western Ontario
Lee Willerman, U.T. at Austin
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