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- Sep. 26, 1994: Died:Richard Herrnstein
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 26, 1994 Taking Over Haiti
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 17
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- <p> DIED. RICHARD HERRNSTEIN, 64, psychologist; of lung cancer;
- in Belmont, Massachusetts. In the eternal debate over nature
- vs. nurture, Herrnstein occupied the uncompromising right. He
- inflamed liberal opinion by arguing in books like I.Q. in the
- Meritocracy (1973) and Crime and Human Nature (1985) that intelligence
- was an inherited trait, and that career success or failure--one's standing in a "hereditary meritocracy"--could not be
- altered by education or social programs. Herrnstein rejected
- suggestions that his arguments were implicitly racist, despite
- his reliance on the research of Arthur Jensen, a psychologist
- who held that racial differences in I.Q. test results were genetically
- based.
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