Discussions on IQ, intelligence
testing and social policy
Howard Gardner's review of The Bell
Curve
Book Reviews of The Bell Curve
These reviews appeared in the May 1995 (Volume 40, Number 5) issue of Contemporary
Psychology, APA's journal of book reviews.
Interview
on The Bell Curve with Robert Sternberg
From Skeptic Magazine
A News Report on
the Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund
Another review of The
Bell Curve
"Successful
High IQ African American Female Questions Bell Curve Website"
This is a letter
from a an American Civil Rights Review (ACRR) reader in reaction to a page on the Bell
Curve topic; I haven't located the page she refers to (no URL is provided), but the letter
is relevant nonetheless.
Sociobiological
Theory of Genius
National Association of Scholars
Press Release (20 May 96)
This press release deals with the withdrawl of Christopher Brand's book The g Factor :
General Intelligence and Its Implications from publication by the publisher.
The
Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in American
Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
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Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray (Contributor); Paperback / Published 1996
Synopsis: "In a book that is certain to ignite an explosive
controversy, Herrnstein and Murray dare to reveal their belief that it is intelligence
levels, not environmental circumstances, poverty, or lack of education that are at the
root of many of our social problems."
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The
Bell Curve Debate; History, Documents, Opinions
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Russell Jacoby, Naomi Glauberman; Paperback / Published 1995
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The
Bell Curve Wars : Race, Intelligence, & the Future of
America
Steven Fraser (Editor) / Published 1995
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copy, or click on the link to the paperback edition below and save 20%.)
Synopsis: "A group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals
dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy
conclusions of the incendiary book, The Bell Curve. All those concerned will want to buy
The Bell Curve Wars for a brief, cogent, critical treatment of its main arguments."
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Cracks
in the Bell Curve
Ashenfelter, et al / Paperback / Published 1998
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Does
the Bell Curve Ring True
William T. Dickens, et al / Paperback / Published 1998
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Inequality
by Design : Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
Claude S. Fischer, et al / Paperback / Published 1996
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From the Publisher: "As debate rages over the widening and
destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his
colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge
arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of
economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994)
through a clear, rigorous reanalysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and
Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain
inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that
economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a
product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking
beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the
"rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter. And
recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of
Americans since the 1970s."
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Intelligence,
Genes, and Success : Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve (Statistics for Social Science
and Public Policy)
Bernie Devlin(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1997
From the author: "In chapter 8 of Intelligence, Genes, and
Success, my coauthors and I test the claims about cognitive ability and wages made by the
authors of The Bell Curve. We show that measured cognitive ability is correlated with
wages but explains little of the variance in wages across individuals and time. We also
present evidence that cognitive ability is unequally rewarded in the labor market for
people of different ethnicity and gender, which is inconsistent with the claim of The Bell
Curve that the U.S. labor market is meritocratic."
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Measured
Lies : The Bell Curve Examined
Joe L. Kincheloe(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1996
Synopsis: "A compilation of original essays by distinguished
educators and social scientists responds to the controversial racial and intellectual
agenda proposed by The Bell Curve, in a study that includes interviews with Coretta Scott
King, Jonathan Kozol, bell hooks, and other notables."
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On
Intelligence : A Bio-Ecological Treatise on Intellectual Development
Stephen J. Ceci, Stephen J. Cece / Paperback / Published 1996
Poisoned
Apple : The Bell-Curve Crisis and How Our Schools Create Mediocrity and Failure
Betty Wallace, William Graves / Published 1995
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(Note: This book does not deal specifically with book The Bell
Curve (and surrounding debate), but rather with the longstanding debates on the
"generic" bell curve commonly used in the American educational system.)
Schools
for All Learners : Beyond the Bell Curve (The Leadership & Management Series ; 7)
Renfro C. Manning / Hardcover / Published 1994 (Special Order)
(Note: This book does not deal specifically with book The Bell
Curve (and surrounding debate), but rather with the longstanding debates on the
"generic" bell curve commonly used in the American educational system.)
Effective
Secondary Teaching : Going Beyond the Bell Curve
James Quina / Published 1989
(Note: This book does not deal specifically with book The Bell
Curve (and surrounding debate), but rather with the longstanding debates on the
"generic" bell curve commonly used in the American educational system.)
The Pioneer Fund Home Page
The Pioneer Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation, and its purpose is "to conduct or
aid in conducting study and research into the problems of heredity and eugenics in the
human race generally and such study and such research in respect to animals and plants as
may throw light upon heredity in man, and research and study into the problems of human
race betterment with special reference to the people of the United States."
The g Factor (General
Intelligence and Its Implications)
A website by Christopher Brand, containing links to The William McDougall NewsLetter,
formerly known as the TgF Newsletter. Brand is author of the book The G Factor, which is
apparently no longer available (as is explained in his site). From Brand's site: Comment
by Hans Eysenck, in review in Personality & Individual Differences: "Christopher
Brand, a paid-up member of the Edinburgh branch of the London School, examines the curious
fate of Spearman's g and discusses general intelligence and its implications. It is an
important job, extremely well done, by someone clearly acquainted with the historical
roots of the controversies that have raged around this concept, and anyone wishing to know
just what happened, and where we are now, can do no better than read this book." This
site contains articles and information on The g Factor, Bell Curve-type debates, and more.
