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Revision as of 15:55, 29 March 2018
About
The Bell Curve is a controversial 1994 book by psychologist Richard Herrnstein and marketist political scientist Charles Murray.
The "most provicative claims in the book" are[1]:
- Human “general intelligence” is a scientifically valid concept.
- IQ tests do a pretty good job of measuring it.
- A person’s IQ is highly predictive of his/her success in life.
- Mean IQ differs across populations (blacks < whites < Asians).
- It isn’t known to what degree differences in IQ are genetically determined, but it seems safe to say that genes play a role (and also safe to say that environment does too).
Items 1 and 2, at a minimum, have been pretty well refuted; RationalWiki has a pretty thorough analysis.
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Footnote
- ↑ 2018-03-27 Ezra Klein: Editor-in-Chief