Mapping Admissions and Other Social Policy against a Philosophical Backdrop

Abstract

In the chapters of Part II the many factors that constitute implicit intelligence policy are organized around four areas of tension. Recall that these areas of tension result from the following dichotomies:

• Academic merit versus fair representation

• Intelligence versus education as a determinant of worldly success

• Aptitude versus achievement

• Rationalism versus empiricism

The unspoken assumption is that [minority students] are anti-scientific, or, at best, ascientific.... We’re wasting enormous amounts of brain power.

Bernard Ortiz de Montellano [1]