Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the publication of their new book, The Bell Curve, Charles Murray '65, a fellow at a prominent conservative think tank, and the late Richard Herrnstein, Pierce professor of psychology, have added a new dimension to the current conversations on race and intelligence...
...short opinion pieces written by concerned intellectuals are the beginning of a considered response to The Bell Curve. These articles have pointed out the basic difficulty of disentangling the effects of intelligence and environment in determining academic and socio-economic success. Can Johnnie not read because he's dumb or because he lives in one of the most God-awful ghettos in America, and his average class has 40 people (half with guns) and one teacher...
...will take several months, or perhaps years, until experts in statistics and the social sciences can comment on the credibility of the claims made in The Bell Curve. An open-minded individual will reserve judgment until that time...
Some early research by Jeffrey Rosen, Charles Lane and Michael Lind has cast doubt on the objectivity of many of the studies cited in The Bell Curve. For example, cited by Murray and Herrnstein are two eugenicists who have advocated the sterilization of "anti-socials...
Other authors cited in The Bell Curve's bibliography are so-called scholars who theorize about a Black sex drive inexorably pushing members of that race towards promiscuity and a concommitant increased likelihood of contracting AIDS...