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Several authors, including Leon Kamin in The Science and Politics of IQ, [24] Angela Saini in Superior: The Return of Race Science, [25] and John P. Jackson, Jr. and Nadine M. Weidman in Race, Racism, and Science, [26] have argued that since the early years of IQ testing comparisons between nations have been used to justify discrimination ...
The Pioneer Fund [69] had been set up by Wickliffe Draper in 1937 with one of its two charitable purposes being to provide aid for "study and research into the problems of heredity and eugenics in the human race" and "into the problems of race betterment with special reference to the people of the United States".
Geneticist Alan R. Templeton argued that the question about the possible genetic effects on the test score gap is muddled by the general focus on "race" rather than on populations defined by gene frequency or by geographical proximity, and by the general insistence on phrasing the question in terms of heritability. [150]
There is a great deal of research into inequalities in health care. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine released a report showing that race and ethnicity were significantly associated with the quality of healthcare received, even after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as access to care. [79]
Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...
The auditorium sat around 300 people, but a few hundred more people waited outside to get into the venue than were let in. Trump spent much of his speech criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris ...
The QNI normalizes the HDI scores of the countries with which a particular nationality is associated to a 0-15% scale. The nationality of the highest-scoring country on the HDI gets the full 15% score, with the other nationalities being ranked proportionately. [12] [13]
Asian alone 6.00% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.21% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Some Other Race Alone 8.42% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Mixed (Two or More Races) 10.21% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Population: 331 449 281