Race and IQ: Fallacy of Heritability

In 1969 Arthur Jensen first made the claim that it is “a not unreasonable hypothesis that genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average Negro-white intelligence difference.” That “hypothesis” has since been defended by Jensen and his epigones with all the zeal often brought to that most dogmatic creed, the orthodoxy of “scientific” truth. The social and intellectual ramifications of Jensen’s original essay in the Harvard Educational Review (hereafter HER), as well as his subsequent work (especially Educability and Group Differences, hereafter Educability) will be with us for a long time. Sober and influential persons in the worlds of academia, journalism, and politics have taken it all with deadly seriousness. No one can talk about the subject of equality without dealing with those writings, and the “hypothesis” has become a political weapon.

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