| Abstract: | Responds to an article by R. J. Herrnstein (1981), which asserts that the statement "83% of the Jews, 80% of the Hungarians, 79% of the Italians, and 87% of the Russians were 'feeble-minded' " (L. J. Kamin, 1974) was made by the present author (LJK) and not H. H. Goddard (1913, 1917). LJK acknowledges that the statement was his and that the supporting data can be found in Goddard's 1917 paper on the testing on immigrants. Although Goddard stated that it was unwise to discard a scientific discovery because of apparent absurdity, it is pointed out that he did not use his scientific data to make an unqualified argument against immigration. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
