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...short, for most citizens of Papua New Guinea, the concept of self-rule is either meaningless or misunderstood. When one tribesman heard that the gift of self-government was to be bestowed upon the people, he sought out his representative in Parliament and asked for three-one for himself, one for his wife...
...Crimson for 11 December 1973, Professor Lewontin wrote "such phrases as 'I.Q.'s substantial heritability' or 'the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent,' despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted in technical journals because there is nothing to refute." In the book The Fallacy of I.Q. (edited by C. Senna and published in 1973), the same Professor Lewontin wrote "the weight of evidence from a variety of correlations between relatives puts the heritability of I.Q. in various human populations between .6 and .8. For reasons of his argument, Jensen prefers...
...showing that the "high heritability of I.Q.," is a non-fact, at least in the context of discussion of social class, and that indeed such phrases as "I.Q.'s substantial heritability" or "the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent," despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted in technical journals because there is nothing to refute...
...writers the time or the space to develop their articles. To begin to explain the background of an event, a dispute or a development should take two pages--an article which combines background, the significance of current events and likely prospects for the future so briefly cannot help being meaningless...
...system; it's a waste of money to get decent sound through all those transistors and capacitors in the amplifier only to allow inferior speakers to mangle it. Also, ignore everything the brochures and salesmen tell you about these systems. At this price range the statistics are meaningless--shop around for an afternoon or two and buy whatever sounds best...