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Grady Towers Self-Description
The following is a letter that Mr. Towers sent to Fred
Vaughan:
"I was originally trained as an
anthropologist, and I spent two years living with an indian
tribe. Like all anthropologists, I received a fundamental
grounding in human genetics, except in my case I carried it a
great deal further. Later on, I went to graduate school in
educational psychology, which is where I learned the rudiments of
statistics, social science research design, psychometrics, and
test construction techniques. I didn't finish my PhD., but
I have written the statistical portions of other people's PhD.
dissertations. I have also been taking notes on these
subjects since 1968, when Arthur R. Jensen bublished "How
Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement," in the
Harvard Educational Review of that same year. I probably
know more about these subjects than anyone else in the super high
IQ societies...
"There is a British psychometrician named
Hans Eynsenck who is currently developing a test that takes score
patterns into account. It should be intuitively obvious
that people who make the same score on an IQ test may make them
in different ways. Eysenck thinks that these different
patterns may tell us something useful. I don't have an
opinion on the subject myself, I'm just waiting to see what
develops.
"What do I do for a living? I don't
think I can tell you what I do in any simple way, since I've done
so many things. I've been a military intelligence analyst
(want to know how to kill the maximum number of people with a
Hydrogen bomb? I had a weeks course in the subject once).
I've been a government bureaucrat, an interpreter, and several
different kinds of police officer. All I can tell you is
that I've hated all of them, and especially those that required
me to carry a gun. It isn't guns that I object to, it's the
damn gun belt! It keeps trying to pull your pants down
around your ankles, which is not exactly conducive to the dignity
of the law!
"The truth of the matter is that I loathe
the goddamned twentieth century, and have been homesick for the
pleistocene all my life."
"Live Long and prosper,
Grady M. Towers"