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A Conversation with Professor Arthur Jensen
AR: You are probably most famous, still, for that
Harvard Educational Review article.
Prof. Jensen: That’s true, yes. I think that’s probably one of the most over-cited articles in the history of psychology...
AR: They were SDS [Students for a Democratic Society]-types?
Jensen: All SDS and Progressive Labor Party, mainly. I tried to put them out when they tried to audit my course, because they were hecklers...
Jensen: I used to have to be accompanied around campus by two campus policemen. In fact, they told me not to leave my office and go to the library, or any place, except to go to the men’s room around the corner, but not anywhere else without calling the campus police. They’d whiz across campus in a car and they’d be here in just a couple of minutes and walk with me wherever I wanted to go. One year I had two campus policemen, plain clothes men, in all my classes. They audited my courses...
AR: I know that in their book,
Crime and Human Behavior, Prof. [Richard] Hernnstein and Prof. [James Q.] Wilson talk about — they’re very tentative about this, but — a possible difference in levels of impulsiveness in groups. They see an unwillingness to defer gratification as a psychological predisposition, one of the predisposing factors to crime. They suspect that traits like that could be distributed differently from group to group.
Jensen: Right. Any personality trait of that measure you examine, of course, has a genetic component...
Prof. Jensen is the author of the definitive work on the validity of mental tests, Bias in Mental Testing (1980), and a more popular condensation of this book called Straight Talk About Mental Tests (1981). Some of his more recent views are reflected in “Spearman’s g and the Problem of Educational Equality,” which appeared in the Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1991. He is the author of many other publications and is currently at work on a book for the layman about his latest findings.
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In his 1969 article in the
Harvard Educational Review, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Achievement?" Professor Arthur Jensen predicted that little could be done to boost IQ and achievement. The failure of Head Start and No Child Left Behind, as well as the following chart substantiate his prediction.
Professor Arthur Jensen's assertions were never discredited.
I think we have wasted too much time and money trying to turn stupid people into intelligent people. We should stop trying, and concentrate on what we know works, which is putting more criminals into prison and keeping there for a long time.