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And I, in turn, thank you for posting something confirming that the intention of IQ testing has been mainly democratic, to ensure that those with talent get to use it, regardless of social background.......By the way, one of the reasons that quotas have taken on a "bad odor" among Jewish neoconservatives is that they were once used to exclude Jews from Ivy League schools. When places like Harvard found out that grades and entrance exams would give more places to Jews than they cared to dole out, they put on a cap. (The same thing has been proposed at places like Berkeley, against Asians, in the name of diversity). The drive to make the United States more meritocratic has been a battering ram against privilege, and has increased class mobility. For example, many private schools feel obliged to have a certain number of scholarship students, so that promising persons from less affluent backgrounds have a leg up. Even a place like St. Alban's, the Episcopalian school at the National Cathedral from which Al Gore graduated, has students from a much wider range of backgrounds then it did when I knew people there 25 years ago, and provides financial aid to persons of modest means, as well as some who are poor...... |
