Re: [xmca] Nobel prize talks stupid things about human intelligence

From: Tony Whitson <twhitson who-is-at UDel.Edu>
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 18:46:16 PDT

For the Tribune article, the link worked for me.
I'll try sending it here pasted together, and see if it comes through
without getting broken up again:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/chi-watson19oct19,0,4157889.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Mike Cole wrote:

> Thanks Tony-- Could not make that to work, but this link does.
> Deja vu all over againandagainandagainandagain.,.....
> mike
>
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2677098.ece
>
>
> On 10/19/07, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The url is all there; but it's broken into two lines: just paste the
>> second line in after the first.
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Mike Cole wrote:
>>
>>> Where on the website is this to be found?mike
>>>
>>> On 10/19/07, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sternberg and others´ answers to the Watson affair:
>>>> http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/
>>>> chi-watson19oct19,0,4157889.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Emily Duvall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> David,
>>>>> I see you send this to Sternberg & Grigorenko; will they be
>>>>> responding to this? Their research with dynamic testing/assessment
>>>>> speaks directly to the issue. Perhaps, as a community, might want
>>>>> to contact folks like Haywood, Lidz, Feuerstein, Tzuriel, Carlson
>>>>> etc. to make some statements
>>>>> ~ Em
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
>>>>> bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of David Preiss
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:55 AM
>>>>> To: Robert Sternberg; Activity eXtended Mind Culture; Elena L.
>>>>> Grigorenko; Linda Jarvin; Steve Stemler
>>>>> Subject: [xmca] Nobel prize talks stupid things about human
>>>>> intelligence
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052416.stm
>>>>>
>>>>> In his Sunday Times interview, Dr James Watson was quoted as saying
>>>>> he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all
>>>>> our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is
>>>>> the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".
>>>>>
>>>>> He was further quoted as saying that his hope was that everyone was
>>>>> equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find
>>>>> this is not true".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just disgusting, racist, horrible...
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> David Preiss, Ph.D.
>>>>> Subdirector de Extensión y Comunicaciones
>>>>> Escuela de Psicología
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> David Preiss, Ph.D.
>>>> Subdirector de Extensión y Comunicaciones
>>>> Escuela de Psicología
>>>> Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
>>>> Av Vicuña Mackenna 4860
>>>> Macul, Santiago
>>>> Chile
>>>>
>>>> Fono: 3544605
>>>> Fax: 3544844
>>>> e-mail: davidpreiss@uc.cl
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>>>>
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>>
>> Tony Whitson
>> UD School of Education
>> NEWARK DE 19716
>>
>> twhitson@udel.edu
>> _______________________________
>>
>> "those who fail to reread
>> are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
>> -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
>

Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK DE 19716

twhitson@udel.edu
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