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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance ...
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994) is a controversial bestseller that Charles Murray wrote with Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein. The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of IQ scores.
The Bell Curve Debate is a 1995 book edited by the historian Russell Jacoby and the writer Naomi Glauberman. [1] Summary. A response to The Bell Curve (1994), by the ...
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-02-914673-9. James Heckman (March 1995). "Cracked Bell". Reason. The Matching Law: Papers in Psychology and Economics by Richard J. Herrnstein, Edited by Howard Rachlin, David I. Laibson, Harvard 1997 ISBN 0-674-06459-3
A normal distribution is sometimes informally called a bell curve. [6] However, many other distributions are bell-shaped (such as the Cauchy , Student's t , and logistic distributions). (For other names, see Naming .)
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns is a report about scientific findings on human intelligence, issued in 1995 by a task force created by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association (APA) following the publication of The Bell Curve and the scholarly debate that followed it.
The bell curve is typical of the normal distribution. Bell curve may also refer to: Gaussian function, a specific kind of function whose graph is a bell-shaped curve; The Bell Curve, a 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray The Bell Curve Debate, a 1995 book on The Bell Curve edited by Jacoby and Glauberman
The book's particular focus is the book The Bell Curve, but to some extent this focus is to illustrate a doctrine that the authors attempt to refute: . At its base is a philosophy ages old: Human misery is natural and beyond human re-demption; inequality is fated; and people deserve, by virtue of their native talents, the positions they have in society.