Tuesday, October 7, 2014

"The Bell Curve" turns 20


  

"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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