Weyher H F
Psychol Rep. 1998 Jun;82(3 Pt 2):1347-74. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3c.1347.
Since World War I, political controversies have complicated the long-standing debate on nature versus nurture, especially the question of the source of the observed mean difference in intelligence between white and black groups. The Pioneer Fund, one of the few nonprofit foundations making grants for study and research into human individual and group differences, has been widely and unfairly attacked by those who believe any such research jeopardizes political commitment to legal equality. The four main scholarly areas of research financially supported by Pioneer have been behavioral genetics, cognitive ability, demographic characteristics, and racial variation. This article provides a unique perspective on the history of the Pioneer Fund and some of the controversies that have taken place.
自第一次世界大战以来，政治争议使关于先天与后天的长期争论变得复杂，尤其是关于白人群体和黑人群体之间观察到的智力平均差异来源的问题。先锋基金是少数为研究人类个体和群体差异提供资助的非营利基金会之一，却遭到了一些人的广泛且不公正的攻击，这些人认为任何此类研究都会危及对法律平等的政治承诺。先锋基金资助的四个主要学术研究领域分别是行为遗传学、认知能力、人口特征和种族差异。本文对先锋基金的历史以及所发生的一些争议提供了独特的视角。
