Top 5 Richard J. Herrnstein Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth.”

— Richard J. Herrnstein

2. “There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.”

— Richard J. Herrnstein

3. “How good a predictor of job productivity is a cognitive test score compared to a job interview? Reference checks? College transcript? The answer, probably surprising to many, is that the test score is a better predictor of job performance than any other single measure. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a meta-analysis on the different predictors of job performance, as shown in the table below.”

— Richard J. Herrnstein

4. “Most Americans think that crime has gotten far too high. But in the ruminations about how the nation has reached this state and what might be done, too little attention has been given to one of the best-documented relationships in the study of crime: As a group, criminals are below average in intelligence.”

— Richard J. Herrnstein

5. “Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt.”

— Richard J. Herrnstein

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