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Group differences: is the good society impossible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

James R. Flynn
James R. Flynn
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University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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‘From a black perspective…the notion that a black (who passes for white) might reclaim his ethnic identity to take advantage of preferential admissions can only trigger an almost inexpressible sense of outrage.’ (Livingston, 1979)

‘Turning an elephant loose in a crowd offers everyone, except the beast and his rider, equal opportunities of being trampled.’ (Tawney, 1931)

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Session 4: Social and Group Differences
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 28 , Special Issue 4: Proceedings of the Galton Institute Symposium on Biological and Social Aspects of Intelligence , October 1996 , pp. 573 - 585
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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