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ERIC Number: EJ514024
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-4805
Increasing the Raw Intelligence of a Nation Is Constrained by Ignorance, Not Its Citizens' Genes.
Wahlsten, Douglas
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v41 n3 p257-64 Sep 1995
Criticizes claims in "The Bell Curve" that a high value for heritability of intelligence constrains the extent to which environmental changes can increase intelligence. Cites adoption studies and the increasing intelligence of successive cohorts of U.S. children as evidence that intelligence can increase substantially without heroic intervention. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Family Environment, Heredity, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient, Intervention, Nature Nurture Controversy, Socioeconomic Status
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray); Cohort Differences
Note: Theme issue title: Canadian Perspectives on "The Bell Curve."