Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree with much of the staff's argument concerning the absurd racialist statements of Kristen M. Clarke '97. However, we must take issue with the staff's gratuitous attack on The Bell Curve...
...also recommend the staff actually read The Bell Curve before passing such judgment on its arguments...
Clarke's outrageous statements came in the context of a letter attacking those who would defend The Bell Curve, a controversial new book coauthored by the late Harvard professor Richard Herrnstein that suggests (among other things) that race and intellectual ability are somehow genetically linked. Rather than attack the questionable research and logic underlying The Bell Curve, however, Clarke resorted to bigotry, pure and simple, to reach the opposite conclusion...
Polite said BSA members believe The Bell Curve "is a very racist book...
...Bell Curve suggests links between race and intelligence, represented by IQ scores...