11/28/12.Intelligent research on intelligence.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334079/jensen-and-flynn-thomas-sowell
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334079/jensen-and-flynn-thomas-sowell
'Two babies are born on the same day at the same hospital," begins a joke by the deadpan comic Steven Wright. After gazing at each other across their cribs for a few hours, they get whisked away by their respective families, never to see each other again for the next 90 years. Then, by a strange twist of fate, they find themselves lying on their deathbeds next to each other in that same hospital. One of them turns to the other and asks: "So—what'd you think?"
In the late 1930s and early '40s, 268 Harvard undergraduates—all men, as Harvard wasn't coed at the time—were recruited for a long-term psychological study. Interviewing them regularly over the coming decades, Harvard scientists aimed to pinpoint the personal attributes that most reliably predict a successful life: that is, a life of superior achievement and income, good physical and mental health, and happy marital and parental relationships. The Harvard Grant Study, as it is called—its original funder was chain-store magnate William T. Grant—has churned out findings ever since."