A Question of Intelligence: The IQ Debate in America

Daniel Seligman. Carol Publishing Corporation, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8065-1507-6

Fortune magazine columnist Seligman's study of IQ tests contends that intelligence is genetically, not culturally, determined. (May)

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