Immigration

... on psychometric tests. Goddard never found that Jews as a group did poorly, and there is no evidence the tests were used in passing the 1924 Immigration Act (see, Franz Samelson (1975, 1982), Snyderman & Herrnstein 1983). Gould states that Morton "doctored" his collection of ...

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... our evolution, or would it be better? I read once that somewhere, I believe in Sardinia, people lived to be very old because there seemed to be no immigration to the Island. This caused the genes to continually be passed on without mixing. Thoughts?

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... D. (1989). A question of intelligence. New York, NY: Birch Lane. Snyderman, M. & Herrnstein, R. J. (1983). Intelligence tests and the immigration act of 1924. American Psychologist, 38, 986-995. Sorokin, P. (1927). Social mobility. New York: Harper. Stringer, C. B. & Andrews, P. ...

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... contributions of Sir Francis Galton, S. G. Morton, H. H. Goddard, and Sir Cyril Burt, (3) the role of early IQ testers in determining U.S. immigration policy, (4) The Bell Curve controversy and the reality of g, (5) race/sex/social class differences in brain size and IQ, (6) Cesare Lombroso ...

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... cosmopolitan countries with low birth rates. There is no guarantee that they will "take over" the gene pool of the country in question. Immigration patterns can also change over time. Asian immigration to the US is changing; richer Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan today ...

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