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There are also strong hereditarian and anti-feminist elements in her thinking.

After the main thrust of the movement, when reformers have failed to change behaviors even by legislation, a hereditarian, or eugenics movement reaches its prime.

Like Jensen he took a firmly hereditarian point of view.

He also challenged the hereditarian viewpoint on intelligence.

They argued in favor of the hereditarian viewpoint.

Scientists supporting the hereditarian point of view have seen it as a vindication of their position.

He is best known for his controversial advocacy of hereditarian hypotheses about race, especially race and intelligence.

As a result there was renewed academic interest in the hereditarian viewpoint and in intelligence tests.

Derbyshire sets forth his hereditarian vision of civilization.

He has written critical commentaries on several hereditarian psychologists known for their controversial work on race and intelligence.

The challenge was against the conclusion he drew - not against his hereditarian assumptions or his statistical expertise.

He also looked at the hereditarian hypothesis for general intelligence factor by examining Wechsler subtest patterns among mentally retarded test-takers.

In the following decades, Osborn remained skeptical of the hereditarian hypothesis of the variance in IQ scores found between racial groups.

Further, the growth of hereditarian views in science supported eugenic proposals; psychiatry's desire for greater respectability in the medical profession made eugenic "science" attractive.

Many of the researchers whose findings support the hereditarian hypothesis of racial IQ disparity have received grants of varying sizes from the Pioneer Fund.

One book written from the hereditarian point of view at this time was The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (1998) by Jensen.

Brand's discussion of the disparity between races in average cognitive ability test scores has caused controversy, especially because of his support for the hereditarian hypothesis of such differences.

Hereditarians, including Jensen, have also argued that Spearman's hypothesis-both formulations-support their hereditarian positions with regards to racial and ethnic differences.

The hereditarian view began to change in the 1920s in reaction to excessive eugenicist claims regarding abilities and moral character, and also due to the development of convincing environmental arguments.

Another debate followed the appearance of The Bell Curve (1994), a book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, who argued in favor of the hereditarian viewpoint.

He was a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality.

In 1969 the educational psychologist Arthur Jensen published a long article reviving the older hereditarian point of view, with the suggestion that there might be genetic reasons why compensatory education had failed.

In 1969, Arthur Jensen revived the hereditarian point of view in the article, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?"

He can be seen as representative of the pre-war analysis of social problem in biological, hereditarian terms although he was firmly on the dominant environmentalist wing of the Eugenics Society itself.

T. Edward Reed, an expert on blood groups, argues that the methodology used in these studies would have been unable to detect any difference, regardless of whether or not the hereditarian hypothesis is correct.

Whitney made a hereditarian argument for the racial IQ disparity found in intelligence research, and regarded affirmative action as the result of a larger disparity between public rhetoric and scientific realities.

The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society (Continuum International, Athlone, 1989)