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This 5 page paper explains why IQ tests are flawed. Murray and Herrnstein’s The Bell Curve is discussed and refuted. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: RT13_SA120bel.doc
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The Bell Curve is discussed and refuted. Bibliography lists 6 sources. SA120bel.doc The publication of The Bell Curve sparked debates when it proposed that intelligence
is genetically determined and further, that race is a factor. While the underlying disagreement was in a sense a nature versus nurture debate as well, political correctness entered the discussion.
And it went further. Authors of The Bell Curve contend that it is intelligence, or lack of it, which causes social problems. Thus, what it comes down to is that
intelligence determines ones life chances. The book gets controversial when it classifies intelligence by race. With the racial tension, between blacks and
whites in America, and with African Americans at the bottom of Murray and Herrnsteins curve, it is no wonder that the book stirred up tensions. Charges of blatant racism were
made against authors. Books with titles such as The Bell Curve Debate, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, and The Bell Curve Wars soon followed. Shortly before the
book came out, in October of 1993, a Wall Street Journal article appeared by the same Charles Murray entitled "The coming white underclass." He also published other controversial pieces, one
entitled "Does Welfare Bring More Babies?" All of these works caused a stir and there was an appropriate backlash. One of Murrays articles appeared in the St. Louis Post
in December of 1993 and concerns illegitimacy among black women. The article starts with statistics. For example, the author notes that in the inner cities, illegitimate births to black women
is about 80% (Murray,1993,p.07B). He then suggests that the black story is irrelevant. It is the escalation of white illegitimacy that is the problem. Citing more statistics, the author concludes
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