Format:
VI, 216 S.
ISBN:
0465006930
Content:
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an ill-concealed racist manifesto, and worrying untold others who fear the further racial polarization of American society. In The Bell Curve Wars, a group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of this incendiary book
Content:
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an ill-concealed racist manifesto, and worrying untold others who fear the further racial polarization of American society. In The Bell Curve Wars, a group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of this incendiary book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Curveball
,
Cracking open the IQ box
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Race, IQ, and scientism
,
The sources of The bell curve
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Paradise miscalculated
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Ethnicity and IQ
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Back to the future with The bell curve : Jim Crow, slavery, and G
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Why now?
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Caste, crime, and precocity
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Has there been a cognitive revolution in America? : the flawed sociology of The bell curve
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Hearts of darkness
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The "it-matters-little" gambit
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Scientific truth and the American dilemma
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Equality : an endangered faith
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The lowerers
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Developing the rage to win
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Brave new right
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The phony war
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For whom the bell curves
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Erbe-Umwelt-Problem
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Intelligenz
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USA
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Intelligenzniveau
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Soziale Klasse
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Rasse
;
Intelligenz
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Herrnstein, Richard J. 1930-1994 The bell curve
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The bell curve
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