Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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your report on the newly published genetic atlas of the world [Science, 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. All humans are closely related. Desperate attempts to reduce the impact of The Bell Curve [which holds that intelligence is determined by heredity...
...Almost universally you will find out a lot of work is required by the class. Some critics believe that high grades in any class are bad, but if a lot of the students do the work extremely well they deserve the good grades that cannot be provided by a bell-curve. And if the average grade here is higher than at Pickyourstate University, who cares? At Harvard we are competing against the best students in the country--any of whom could go to that school and get near perfect GPAs...
Mention The Bell Curve in polite company these days, and it may not be polite for long. Critics have pummeled the best-selling book by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, which blames genetics for the gap between the average I.Q. of whites and blacks. But most of the assailants haven't noticed that perhaps their best weapon lies almost unused right under their noses. At about the same time that Murray threw his Curve, Princeton University Press put out The History and Geography of Human Genes by population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza...
Charles A. Murray '65, Surviving Author of The Bell Curve. Strike while the iron is hot and while the market is ready. Write a sequel. Sell the film rights...
...attached to the idea that the poor can and should be helped, they are open to urgings from the right that the effort is pointless or misguided. The air these days is full of that kind of talk, and not just in Washington. On the best-seller list, The Bell Curve argues that government should quit much of the antipoverty business because the poor are doomed by their mostly hereditary low IQs. Now that California voters have approved Proposition 187, which would deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants and their children, similar proposals are being promoted in Florida...