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Article: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
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- February 10, 1995
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If you've just come home from a six-month safari, you may have missed the bitter disputes set off by The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Its authors, sociologist Charles Murray and the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (hereafter M & H), have been roundly attacked for their ideas. Critique has followed on critique--gaining all the more sales for the book.
According to M & H all the world is divided into five "cognitive classes." Individuals are assigned to one or another of these classes by their IQ scores as measured by standard intelligence tests. At the top is Cognitive Class I, or "the cognitive elite," who in a ...
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