My analysis of Kevin MacDonald's pseudoscience:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-018-9310-x/fulltext.html …
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I'd guess that that book only includes a reprint of Herrnstein's 1971 Atlantic Monthly article. Be that as it may, the claim that Herrnstein was the most prominent proponent of the hereditarian position would be rejected by everyone who is familiar with the relevant literature.
Jensen was a Berkeley professor. Is that below or same or above Harvard professor?
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In this list Jensen is #47 while Herrnstein doesn't even make it on the list.https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/eminent.aspx …
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Shockley was probably the most "prominent" proponent of hereditarianism if we're thinking just about general academic prestige (rather than contributions to knowledge).
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In retrospect I probably should have put Shockley on the list. My first idea was to calculate the percentage of Jews among the signatories of the 1997 WSJ editorial, but I didn't think I could do it accurately. Some people get angry if you send an email asking if they're Jewish.
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Counting Jews like that is problematic because you need to know their ancestry %s for a proper estimate, not just people with >0%. My % is 3 but it would be somewhat silly to count me as Jewish hereditarian. By the way, Rich Haier has a Jewish surname too.https://books.google.com/books?id=_dQP4nHgyVUC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=%22haier%22+jewish&source=bl&ots=APyudOJ9AR&sig=duFcuxFw1jOxBHmr5-CGoptdBok&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjthtuIvfHZAhWNt1kKHeD6BNMQ6AEIOzAD#v=onepage&q=%22haier%22%20jewish&f=false …
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MacDonald and I both define someone as Jewish (for the purpose of this discussion) if they're at least 1/2. You can rarely tell for sure that someone is Jewish just by their name. I would have had to contact all 52 signatories to ask, but I didn't think they would all answer me.
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In the course of fact-checking for the paper, I emailed a sociologist (who was in a position to know) to confirm that Philip Hauser was Jewish. He emailed me back accusing me of being an anti-Semite wanting to obtain this information for "evil purposes."
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