"The Bell Curve", Herrnstein and Murray's
controversial book, was published two decades ago this month. The book provoked outrage by arguing that it was "highly likely" that the sizable black-white
gap in IQ scores is partly genetic. This unfortunate and unnecessary statement, and others like it -about IQ differences between ethnic groups,
or statements that bordered on eugenics
in relation to IQ, as well as deterministic statements (about IQ being largely hereditary) – caused many
good scholars to abandon this field.
This article by Robert VerBruggen reviews
the book.
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