The bell curve: intelligence and class structure in American life | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-08

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00:01:02 1 Synopsis
00:01:39 1.1 Introduction
00:03:45 1.2 Part I. The Emergence of a Cognitive Elite
00:04:55 1.3 Part II. Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior
00:07:27 1.4 Part III. The National Context
00:10:19 1.5 Living Together
00:11:34 2 Policy recommendations
00:14:46 3 Media reception
00:16:27 4 Peer review
00:17:46 5 Mainstream Science on Intelligence
00:18:43 5.1 APA task force report
00:20:44 6 Criticisms
00:20:58 6.1 Criticism of alleged assumptions
00:21:08 6.1.1 Criticism by Stephen Jay Gould
00:22:35 6.1.2 Criticism by James Heckman
00:24:08 6.2 Criticism of statistical methods
00:26:55 6.3 Criticism of use of AFQT
00:29:14 6.4 Cognitive sorting
00:32:35 6.5 Race and intelligence
00:41:19 6.5.1 Allegations of racism
00:44:02 7 iThe Global Bell Curve/i



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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status. They also argue that those with high intelligence, the "cognitive elite", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence. The book was controversial, especially where the authors wrote about racial differences in intelligence and discussed the implications of those differences.
Shortly after its publication, many people rallied both in criticism and defense of the book. A number of critical texts were written in response to it.