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Under the prevailing "innate" model of human ability, as encouraged by The Bell Curve, "how you do is norm-based," said Howard...
...those who do get the disease, weeks in bed are the norm. The most common symptoms are a sore throat, swollen glands and general exhaustion. Most sufferers from the disease, which is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, get a fever. Two-thirds have an enlarged spleen...
...Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that, "If the Princetonian had wanted to assert in sturdy chorus that his college...was deliberately and passionately America's norm in ideals of conduct and success, he would have gone to Yale...
...policy implications that Murray and Herrnstein arrive at can be hard to fathom, even if one accepts that improving IQ is as difficult as they say it is. Why not redouble attempts to bring the lagging populations, white and black, closer to the norm? Murray acknowledges that IQ may be more malleable than he supposes. But he holds that a workable strategy for intervention, especially by the bumptious instrument of government, is simply not there. And his philosophical conservatism predisposes him to look first for solutions that don't involve government at all. So The Bell Curve suggests ending welfare...
...batting average or the idea of three square meals a day. There have been times when any sex at all was a beautiful faraway ideal, like reincarnation, and there have been other periods when twice a day or hourly seemed pretty normal. But twice weekly was the norm, I thought, so it's a surprise to learn that according to the new survey, once a week is more like it. Only about a third of adults are keeping up the pace, another third are plugging along at two or three times a month, and for the remainder, sex is rare...