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A 10 page analysis of the infamous book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The writer defends the arguments put forth by these two authors and supports it with observation from Leon Dash's Pulitzer Prize winning account of a welfare mother. No additional sources cited.
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amendment. This rather straight-forward analysis of scientific data was regarded as extremely controversial because it stated the rather mundane observation that some individuals are more likely than others, from
the beginning of their lives, to achieve wealth and power and be considered in the top 5% of the nations socioeconomic categories. Others are much more likely to be in
the bottom 5% of the socioeconomic ladder. Herrnstein and Murray postulated that the main factor for predicting future success or failure was intelligence. Herrnstein and Murray attempted to demonstrate
that American society is becoming progressively more meritocratic, that is that wealth and other desirable social outcomes are being allotted more and more in accordance to the intelligence of the
populace and less and less due to their social background. By hypothesizing that intelligence is not an area that is subject to easy environmental control, but is?instead?an area which is
difficult to modify and, at least in part, inherited, Herrnstein and Murray posited that the genetic difference that exist between individuals would necessarily contributed in a significant manner to the
future success of those individuals. They derived this thesis largely based one evidence garnered from an analysis of data that was compiled in a the National Longitudinal Study
of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,0000 US citizens in 1980, with subsequent follow-up interviews being conducted at regular intervals. Each of the subjects included in
the analysis completed the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT). The AFQT, which is a test of mental ability, can also be
interpreted as a measure of intelligence. The results of this test were evaluated as to subsequent social outcomes. This included such social outcomes as high school graduation, level of income,
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