[In the following essay, Herrnstein and Murray contend that IQ test results are the most reliable predictor of socioeconomic success and failure in society.]
"But what about race?" we...
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[In the following review, Browne examines The Bell Curve, J. Philippe Rushton's Race, Evolution, and Behavior, and Seymour W. Itzkoff's The Decline of Intelligence in America, focusing o...
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[An essayist and nonfiction writer, Kaus is the author of The End of Equality (1992). In the following essay, he contends that The Bell Curve neglects the environmental factors that influence intellig...
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[In the following review of The Bell Curve, Winship applauds the thoroughness of the authors' research, which argues a link between intelligence levels and social problems.]
At a meeting of ...
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[Ryan is an educator, political scientist, and critic. In the following review of The Bell Curve, he contends that Herrnstein and Murray are using IQ research to support a political agenda that includ...
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[A paleontologist, educator, and critic, Gould is the author of The Mismeasure of Man (1981). In the following review, he charges that the authors of The Bell Curve used inadequate and biased data and...
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[In the following excerpt from a review of The Bell Curve and Robert T. Michael's Sex in America, Ross contends that the authors of the former have deliberately ignited racial controversies and...
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[In the following essay, Easterbrook examines the intelligence data used in The Bell Curve and contends that it should "be seen as a tract advocating a political point of view, not a detached a...
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[In the following essay, Murray responds to the negative criticism of The Bell Curve.]
In the past few weeks, I have found myself occasionally leafing through The Bell Curve to reassure myself. Ric...
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[Barone is a lawyer, essayist, and critic. In the following essay, he favorably assesses The Bell Curve and claims that it encourages Americans to help the intellectually deficient.]
Perhaps becaus...
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[In the following essay, Van Den Haag favorably assesses The Bell Curve, applauding it as thorough and accurate.]
In 1971 Richard Herrnstein, co-author with Charles Murray of this weighty volume, p...
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[Wilson is an educator and author of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention (1987). In the following essay, he favorably assesses The Bell Curve, contending that the book accurately reveals the...
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[Jensen is a psychologist, educator, essayist, and author of Bias in Mental Testing (1979). In the following essay, he argues that The Bell Curve represents thorough research and draws accurate conclu...
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[In the following essay, Lomasky applauds The Bell Curve's suggestion of a social meritocracy in which intellectual and/or physical abilities are the deciding factors of success in life.]
So...
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[Lisa Graham McMinn is an American sociologist and Mark K. McMinn is an American psychologist. In the following essay, they fault The Bell Curve for asserting that "intelligence is of utmost im...
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[Hanson, an American educator and critic, is the author of Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life (1993). In the following essay, he faults The Bell Curve for arguing that intellige...
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[Fischel is an American educator. In the following essay, he faults The Bell Curve for its "poorly disguised political agenda" which fosters racism.]
Eugenics is as American as apple ...
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[An American journalist, Wooldridge is the author of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England 1850–1990. In the following essay, he favorably assesses The Bell Curve' s co...
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[In the following essay, Block faults The Bell Curve's explanation of the influence of genetics and heritability in determining intelligence.]
According to The Bell Curve, Black Americans ar...
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[Ed. note: this article was originally published on August 14th, 1995.] On a recent afternoon, four women met at an Upper East Side restaurant to discuss what it was like to be an extremely beautif...
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THE BLACK SWAN: THE IMPACT OF THE HIGHLY IMPROBABLEBy Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House, 366 pages, $26.95
Nassim Taleb knows the good life: weekends in Venice, excellent wine, helicopter-flying l...
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Even well-run growth companies with great products can stumble.That's a lesson Faro Technologies FARO learned.Even as sales grew, problems tripped up the firm: Lawsuits, a corruption probe and risi...
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Almost immediately following the fire at the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero in August that left two firefighters dead, a harsh light began to shine on a Bronx-based subcontractor with no exp...
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The Bell Curve Controversy
Tales of the Pretty: Riding the Belle Curve
