Arthur Jensen Quotes

United States, Psychologist
August 24, 1923 – October, 22, 2012.

Arthur Robert Jensen was an American psychologist and author. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, the study of how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.

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Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.

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There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

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The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

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The orthodox environmental theories of heredity have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

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YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

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- Nature
- Forces
- Atone
Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

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- Reality
- Intentions
- Based
Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed.

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The validity of g is most conspicuous in scholastic performance, not because g-loaded tests measure specifically what is taught in school, but because g is intrinsic to learning novel material, grasping concepts, distinctions, and meanings... The most critical tool for scholastic learning beyond the primary grades— reading comprehension—is probably the most highly g-loaded attainment in the course of elementary education.

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