Word: belle
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...groups, one spearheaded by members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and another comprised of students from the Kennedy School of Government, plan to protest during Tuesday's public address at the Institute of Politics (IOP) by Charles A. Murray '65, co-author of The Bell Curve...
Murray, along with the late Pierce Professor in Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked a firestorm of protest across the country with their controversial book The Bell Curve, which presents findings linking intelligence to race...
...Bell Curve and The History and Geography of Human Genes reach the same conclusion: races are remarkably similar, there being more difference among individuals within a race than among races. Therefore, the policy implications that ought to flow from both books are the same: justice should be color blind. Stop treating each race as if all its members were identical. That, specifically, is the burden of what The Bell Curve's authors...
Alike Under the Skin Your report on the newly published genetic atlas of the world [Jan. 16] states that its conclusions flatten those of The Bell Curve. But The History and Geography of Human Genes is primarily a study of the distribution of human genes and presents a kind of ``global family tree.'' This is far from a study of the distribution of intelligence among human beings, which is the focus of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's book. While there is no doubt that all humans are closely related, desperate attempts to reduce the impact of The Bell Curve...
...need not choose between The Bell Curve and The History and Geography of Human Genes. Both books reach the same conclusion: races are remarkably similar, there being more difference among individuals within a race than among races. Therefore, the policy implications that ought to flow from both books is the same: justice should be color blind. Stop treating each race as if all its members were identical. That, specifically, is the burden of what The Bell Curve's authors ask. Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Pacific Grove, California