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Article: "The American breed": Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund.
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- Albany Law Review
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- March 22, 2002
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INTRODUCTION
A. The Bell Curve, The Pioneer Fund, and American Eugenics
When The Bell Curve was published in 1994 it was an immediate best seller; more than a million copies are currently in print. The thesis of The Bell Curve, that intelligence--the trait that IQ tests are designed to measure--is inherited, has become increasingly critical as a predictor of educational, occupational, and social success. (1) The Bell Curve asserts that those possessing a high IQ constitute a hereditary upper class while their more limited counterparts at the opposite end of the IQ spectrum make up an "underclass." The Bell Curve also analyzes social and economic ...