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Article: News and Views: The Flynn Effect; Shattering Bad News for the Scientific Racists
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- June 30, 1997
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News and Views: The Flynn Effect; Shattering Bad News for the Scientific Racists
A discovery by a New Zealand philosopher that people all over the developed world are becoming smarter seriously undetermines The Bell Curve thesis that intelligence is a hard-wired and immutable trait.
Probably the most influential book on race to be published in the past decade or more was The Bell Curve, authored by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein. Within months of its publication in October 1994 the 845-page book sold more than 400,000 copies, an extraordinary feat for a tract of considerable complexity with a 300-page appendix of complicated and scholarly tables.
The basic thesis of The Bell ...