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...latest brilliant argument from our doctrinaire conservative friends on race relations ("Defending The Bell Curve," Opinion, Oct. 24, 1994). There is a genetic component to intelligence. Whites outscore Blacks on IQ tests. Therefore affirmative action. Head Start and abortion rights should be scrapped...
Clarke then questioned the authors' motives for writing The bell Curve." The real issue at hand is not IQ," she said. "[The authors'] hidden agenda is aimed at eliminating welfare and hurting the poor...
...book claims that intelligence, as measured by IQ scores is strongly correlated with race. Murray and Herrnstein argue that social welfare spending is often futile, incapable of overcoming the challenges of lower intelligence...
...Bell Curve suggests links between race and intelligence, represented by IQ scores...
...controversy over Herrnstein's work is nothing new. In 1971, he first proposed that genetic factors such as IQ could create social stratification in societies increasingly based upon achievement...