Re: IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject.

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Sean Edward Hillyard: "Re: Race, intelligence, and anti-racist prejudice (Was: Genetic Evolution)"
• Previous message: Warren Sarle: "Re: Race, intelligence, and anti-racist prejudice (Was: Genetic Evolution)"
• Maybe in reply to: Stephen Lajoie: "IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject."
• Next in thread: Lennart Regebro: "Re: IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject."

In article <3illee$qo3@elaine37.Stanford.EDU>, cfairman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Carolyn Jean Fairman) writes:
|> ...
|> Campare kids in random daycare or home care watching random TV or
|> being in a Montessori pre-school, and I'm sure the Montessori
|> _trained_ kids do better on the things tested in IQ tests.

There is a whole chapter in _The Bell Curve_ on that issue. Although I
do not recall any specific mention of Montessori pre-school, the most
intensive pre-school programs produced only a small and temporary
increase in IQ. If you have references showing better results from
Montessori programs, please enlighten us.

-- 


Warren S. Sarle       SAS Institute Inc.   The opinions expressed here

saswss@unx.sas.com    SAS Campus Drive     are mine and not necessarily

(919) 677-8000        Cary, NC 27513, USA  those of SAS Institute.

• Next message: Sean Edward Hillyard: "Re: Race, intelligence, and anti-racist prejudice (Was: Genetic Evolution)"
• Previous message: Warren Sarle: "Re: Race, intelligence, and anti-racist prejudice (Was: Genetic Evolution)"
• Maybe in reply to: Stephen Lajoie: "IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject."
• Next in thread: Lennart Regebro: "Re: IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject."