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The Bell Curve

Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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Nov 08, 2021bell5133 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Facts are facts. The statistics don’t lie. Things were better for the poor and minorities before LBJ’s war on poverty. Welfare policies encourage the poor to stay poor. So many good things began to decline in 1964 while negative things…
Aug 04, 2021Dr_Alex rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A highly maligned book that relies on hundred years of studies. Read and decide.
Jul 16, 2019Howie2020 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A very important and controversial book that looks at how intelligence (IQ) is distributed among the population in the US (though some references to European studies are utilized) and how one's IQ plays into their probability of what kind…
Jan 29, 2018Leonadas23 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
@pwise Seems kind of ridiculous to just assume this book is right in its conclusions just based on the cursory reading you gave it. Imo this book is nothing more than schlock, designed to make the people at the top of the hierarchy…
Jul 06, 2017Zinaida666 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book explains a whole lot about intelligence & is interesting reading! Plus it makes the liberals go nuts trying to disprove it because they CAN'T DISPROVE it!!
May 06, 2014danielestes rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The Bell Curve was first published 20 years ago and the contention that intelligence has a causal relationship with heredity is as controversial as ever. Herrnstein (who passed away before the book was published) and Murray set out to…