Daniel Vining Jr.

Daniel Vining Jr.
Education Yale University, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
Fields Demography
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Models of Urban and Spatial Concentration (1975)

Daniel Rutledge Vining Jr. is an American demographer who has been an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2010.[1]

Education and career

Vining received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1966, his M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971, and his Ph.D. from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Urban and Public Affairs in 1975. In 1974, he was named a lecturer in the Regional Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became an assistant professor in 1975 and a tenured associate professor in 1980. In 1981, he was named an associate professor of public and urban policy for three years retroactive to July 1, 1980.[2] He remained an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania until 1993, and became an emeirtus professor there in 2010.[1]

Research

Vining's research has indicated that the average IQ of Americans has decreased by about 5 points since IQ tests became widely used in the early 20th century,[3] and that high-intelligence people tend to have as many or more children as people who are less intelligent during periods when the overall fertility rate is rising.[4] His research has also found that wealthy families tend to have as many, or fewer, children than do low-income families; he has argued that this pattern occurs because human reproductive behavior is learned, not heritable.[5]

Controversial views and affiliations

Vining has previously been an editorial board member of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, and he has argued that America is undergoing a "dysgenesis" because more intelligent people in America are not reproducing as often.[6] He has also asserted that this "dysgenesis" is especially harmful to African Americans.[7] His work was cited in the prominent 1994 book the Bell Curve, and he has received $197,750 in grants from the Pioneer Fund, for which he has been criticized as a "race scientist".[6][8][9] Vining has responded to these criticisms by saying that the media has unfairly characterized him and the Pioneer Fund. In a 1995 letter to the New York Review of Books, he wrote,

Henry Ford, whose fortune founded the Ford Foundation, not only authored The International Jew, a profoundly anti-Semitic book that Hitler greatly admired and that sold millions and millions of copies all over the world, but also received in 1938 the highest award, the Supreme Order of the German Eagle, that the 3rd Reich could bestow on a non-German, was the only American cited by name in Mein Kampf, and had a full-length portrait of himself in Nazi headquarters in Munich. Wickliffe Draper, whose fortune underlies the Pioneer Fund, on the other hand, was and did none of these things, to my knowledge. As for the Mankind Quarterly it is published by some obscure outfit in Washington, D.C., that only has [Roger] Pearson as paid staff.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Daniel R. Vining, Jr. CV" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "Recommendations for Academic Appointments and Promotions" (PDF). University of Pennsylvania. 1981-05-14.
  3. ↑ Browne, Malcolm (1994-10-16). "What Is Intelligence, and Who Has It?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  4. ↑ Comings, David E. (1996). The Gene Bomb: Does Higher Education and Advanced Technology Accelerate the Selection of Genes for Learning Disorders, ADHD, Addictive, and Disruptive Behaviors?. Hope Press. p. 46. ISBN 9781878267399.
  5. ↑ Cloud, John (2009-03-31). "Type A Personalities Have the Edge in Procreating". Time. ISSN 0040-781X.
  6. 1 2 Lane, Charles (1994-12-01). "The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve'". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  7. ↑ Itzkoff, Seymour W. (1994). The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 78. ISBN 9780275944674.
  8. ↑ Miller, Adam (1994). "The Pioneer Fund: Bankrolling the Professors of Hate". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (6): 58–61. doi:10.2307/2962466. JSTOR 2962466.
  9. ↑ "Pioneer Fund". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  10. ↑ Daniel R. Vining Jr; Lane, Charles (1995-03-23). "Pioneer". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
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