Francis Galton (1822-1911), from his book Hereditary Genius : I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often imp...

It has been estimated that the proportion of a person’s intelligence which is inherited from his or her parents is upward of 50 percent . ...

The idea that ability is partly inherited continues to be controversial, for reasons that seem to have more to do with ideology than scient...

The following extract is from: Peter Saunders, Social Mobility Myths , Civitas 2010, pp.56-58. (The full publication is available for downlo...

Extract from a 2013 article by Ed West on the Spectator ’s website: I’m starting to get the impression that the Guardian isn’t very keen o...

If ability is at least partly inherited, then it is likely that social classes will arise. If social class is partly explained by genes, the...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The following extract* from John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography is cited in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate . ...

IQ (intelligence quotient) as a single measure of intelligence started to become prominent with the inception of compulsory education. Those...

The parents of a child genius with an IQ similar to Einstein’s have said she is ‘perfectly ordinary’. Ophelia Spracklen, 12, scored a stunni...

text of a letter to an academic I have written to you about the IQ test that I did when I was ten, and in retrospect I realise that probab...

text of a letter to an academic My life continues to be constricted by the anti-exceptionality syndrome of modern society. When I was ab...

Today there was a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled: Intelligence – born smart, born equal, born different According to the Radio Times , ...

The late Professor Hans Eysenck once told me about an experiment in which a population of rats was divided into ‘bright’ and ‘dull’ on some ...

Recently, both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have raised the question of innate IQ, breaking the usual taboo on the topic. Mr Johnson has...

Prior to the 1939-45 war, getting university fees paid if you, or your parents, could not afford them depended on showing remarkable academi...

The following is an extract from an article by Professor Max Hammerton* entitled ‘The Thought Police’ in a recent issue of the Oxford Magazi...

Nick Clegg vows to tackle Britain’s lack of social mobility Nick Clegg said it was a ‘national scandal’ that some of the country’s brightes...

In relation to my recent post regarding the shifting of the bell curve , it is interesting to note that there has recently been a spate of n...

David Cameron has suggested that the NHS and the education system should ‘close the gap’ between rich and poor. Recently a grandfather of ...

It is objected that directors and shareholders of water firms continue to receive substantial ‘rewards’ in salaries and dividends, although ...