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The Bell Curve Information
5,330 words, approx. 18 pages
 The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of many...




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 Human Events
Murdering the bell curve
07/01/2002: 834 words, approx. 3 pages At least we finally have liberals on record admitting there is such a thing as IQ. Six years ago, Eric. Nesbitt, a U.S. airman assigned to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, was brutally murdered by Daryl Renard Atkins, a repeat violent criminal. It...
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 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Rise and Fall of The Bell Curve
04/01/2005: 513 words, approx. 2 pages In a widely publicized event, The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray was published in October 1994. This 845-page book was a racial bombshell. Stacked with statistical tables and hundreds of footnotes, the book argued that on average blacks have IQs...
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 The New York Observer
Tales of the Pretty: Riding the Belle Curve
8/2/2007: 969 words, approx. 3 pages [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 beautiful young woman in New York City. About what it was...
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 The New York Observer
An Epicurean Skeptic Assesses the Swan Pool of Life
5/1/2007: 548 words, approx. 2 pages 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 lessons and a host of other luxuries that are easy to afford if, like him, you’re...



Literary Criticism
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The Bell Curve Controversy
7,323 words, approx. 24 pages
 [In the following essay, Block faults The Bell Curve's explanation of the influence of genetics and heritability in determining intelligence.]
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The Bell Curve Controversy
5,805 words, approx. 19 pages
 [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 includes a racist meritocracy and the dismantling of the social welfare system.]
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The Bell Curve Controversy
5,162 words, approx. 17 pages
 [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 assessment of research."]


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