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Greta, who filed for divorce soon after the incident, claims that John chased her through a field near their apartment building, dragged her inside and raped her as their 2½-year-old daughter watched and cried, "Mommy, Mommy!" Defense Lawyer Charles Burt admitted that sexual intercourse took place, but he denied that John had used force. Greta kneed her husband in the groin, Burt told the jurors, and John then slapped her in the face. The defense portrayed the young couple's rocky four-year relationship as "quarrel, make up, have...
Herrnstein said that while Dorfman's article was "generally quite good," Dorfman overlooked Burt's admission that he had "normalized" his data. "Normalizing data as Burt did is not unusual when you aren't working with standardized IQ tests," Herrnstein added...
Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology, said yesterday "The case is airtight, Burt was a fraud in many ways." He added that "all this nonsense about IQ and heredity" depended on Burt's evidence. "That they were fraudulent was to be expected," Lewontin said...
Christopher S. Jencks, professor of Sociology, said much recent U.S. evidence "broadly and loosely" supports Burt. "Evidence is very strong that genes have some effect on performance on standa dized tests," he said...
Jencks added that the U.S. studies do not accord genetic factors as much of a role in determining IQ as Burt's study...