IQ, Social Class and Educational Policy

blacks were wholly determined by heredity (a position not maintained by any serious psychologist who has studied the literature), we could argue from that either for a policy of segregation or a system of positive discrimination in favor of blacks. One's philosophical and ethical ideals, one's political orientation and the like govern the way one deals with facts. Unfortunately, we live with many myths that make it more difficult for us to distinguish fact from fiction than it would otherwise be. I should like to ex-