Project 100,000 was a social program started in 1966 that lowered minimum medical and IQ standards for acceptance into the military. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announced the program as a way to train poor men and give them the discipline, self-confidence, and job skills needed to break out of poverty after their military service.…
On September 2, 2025, The Washington Post published an article (Bogage, 2025) reporting that E. J. Antoni, Donald Trump’s nominee for head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, had “shared a controversial scientific theory of inherent differences in intellect between men and women” to interns at the Heritage Foundation, where he works. [Update, September 30,…
These results show that it is normal to have some cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
Transracial adoption studies are a powerful methodology for examining the relative contribution of genetics and environment to average differences in IQ across racial and ethnic groups. The best — and most famous — transracial adoption study was the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study (MTAS) conducted by Sandra Scarr and her colleagues (Scarr & Weinberg, 1976; Weinberg…
Illiterate people’s thinking probably remains grounded in their everyday experience. When these people take a test that solely measures abstract thinking, they perform poorly. This does not make them stupid. Instead, it shows the disconnect between their natural mode of thought and the unfamiliar test content.
It is clear that there has not been a massive increase in Irish IQ during the 20th or 21st centuries.
You can run, but you can’t hide . . . from g
Despite my disappointment in the book, I think scholars of intelligence should read it.
It is clear that the pre-war views of intelligence and race were not guided blindly by racism.
Given the impressive level of her empirical accomplishments, it should not be surprising that her theoretical accomplishments are also worth remembering.
