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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 ...
In 1994 the Pioneer-financed journal Mankind Quarterly, [155] of which Roger Pearson was the manager and pseudonymous contributor, had been described by Charles Lane in a review of The Bell Curve in the New York Review of Books as "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the ...
Alderfer (2003) analysed the editorial as one of five responses to The Bell Curve, a book which he described as "an attempt to influence both psychological knowledge and U.S. politics". He concluded that some of the responses, including the editorial, "fell far short of providing a critical analysis of the book's racially biased argument and ...
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 Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ and Inequality Worldwide is a book by Lynn, originally published Washington Summit Publishers in 2008. The book's stated purpose is to determine whether the racial and socioeconomic differences in the United States in average IQ, as originally claimed by the 1994 book The Bell Curve, also exist in other countries ...
In another controversial leadership move, sources indicate Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer has implemented a bell curve performance rating system to identify and fire low-performing employees. How it ...
Research backed by the fund on race and intelligence has generated controversy and criticism. One prominent example is the 1994 book The Bell Curve , which drew heavily from Pioneer-funded research. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The fund also has ties to eugenics , [ 16 ] and has both current and former links to white supremacist publications such as American ...
Measures of intelligence often exhibit cultural bias. [4]In response to controversy sparked by the publication of The Bell Curve in 1994, a 1995 task force by the American Psychological Association found that racial and ethnic groups have wider range of intelligence test performance within groups than the mean difference between groups.