The bell curve debate : history, documents, opinions / edited by Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Times Books, [1995], ©1995.
Description
xiv, 720 pages ; 20 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 679-681) and index.
    Contents
    • I. Reviews and Arguments. Mismeasure by Any Measure / Stephen Jay Gould. Apocalypse Now? / Alan Ryan. Blacktop Basketball and The Bell Curve / Gregg Easterbrook. The Median Is the Message / Ellen Willis. Clever Arguments, Atrocious Science / John Carey. Skin-Deep Science / Jim Holt. Scholarly Brinkmanship / Howard Gardner. Innumeracy / K. C. Cole. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics / Leon J. Kamin. Sermon as Science / Peter Passell. Dangerous, but Important / Richard Nisbett. A Dystopian Fable / Michael Stern. The Heart of the Matter / Joe Chidley
    • II. Sources and Polemics. Tainted Sources / Charles Lane. The Curious Laird of Nigg / Magnus Linklater. Inside the Pioneer Fund / John Sedgwick. Professors of Hate / Adam Miller. The Rushton File / Irving Louis Horowitz. Theories of East Asian Superiority / Barry Sautman. Ireland's "Low" IQ: A Critique / Ciaran Benson
    • III. Opinions and Testimonies. A Long Tradition / E. J. Dionne, Jr.
    • The Truth about Asian Americans / Margaret Chon. For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls / Tim Beardsley. A Triumph of Packaging / David M. Kutzik. Throwing a Curve / Bob Herbert. Born to Lose / DeWayne Wickham. Branded / Gary Earl Ross. Timing Is Everything / Salim Muwakkil. Intellectual Brown Shirts / Adolph Reed, Jr. Breaking Ranks / Hugh Pearson. Defining Race / Steven A. Holmes. Too Clever by Half / The Economist. Correlation as Causation / David Suzuki. Blood Simple / Carl Rowan. Resurgent Racism / Cynthia Tucker. So What! / Tom Christie. The Limits of IQ / William Raspberry. The IQ Cult / Brent Staples. A Large and Enduring Market / Nell Irvin Painter. Lessons of The Bell Curve / Christopher Winship. Right Is Right / Elizabeth Austin. Straightening Out The Bell Curve / K. Anthony Appiah. On Not Getting It / Roger E. Hernandez. Minority Report / Christopher Hitchens. Get Smart / Mike Walter. Ethnicity, Genetics, and Cuteness / Bruce McCall --
    • IV. Conservative Commentary and Critique. Legacy of Racism / Pat Shipman. Living with Inequality / Eugene D. Genovese. Paroxysms of Denial / Arthur R. Jensen. Is Intelligence Fixed? / Nathan Glazer. Methodological Fetishism / Brigitte Berger. Dispirited / Glenn C. Loury. The Multicultural Trap / Charles Krauthammer. Back to the Future / Richard Lynn. A Moral Imperative / Douglas J. Besharov. Restoration Man / Peter Brimelow
    • V. The Press Speaks Out. The Bellicose Curve / Christian Science Monitor. A High Ignorance Quotient / Boston Globe. Dead-End Curve / St. Louis Post-Dispatch. What's at Stake / Buffalo News. The Bell Curve Agenda / New York Times. IQ and Social Justice / Los Angeles Times. IQ Is Not Destiny / Business Week
    • VI. Origins and Implications. Hereditary Talent and Character (1865) / Francis Galton. On Breeding Good Stock (1903) / Karl Pearson. Genius, Fame, and Race (1897) / Charles H. Cooley. The Negro (1911) / Encyclopaedia Britannica --
    • VII. Testing America's Intelligence. Eugenics Comes to America / Garland E. Allen. The Pioneers of IQ Testing / Leon J. Kamin. Black Intellectuals on IQ Tests / William B. Thomas. The Measurement of Intelligence (1916) / Lewis M. Terman. The Rising Tide of Color (1920) / Lothrop Stoddard. The Mental Age of Americans (1922) / Walter Lippmann. A Future for the Tests (1922) / Walter Lippmann. A Study of American Intelligence (1923) / Carl C. Brigham. What the Army "Intelligence" Tests Measured (1924) / Horace M. Bond
    • VIII. The Return of the Repressed. IQ / Richard J. Herrnstein. The Differences Are Real / Arthur R. Jensen. Differences Are Not Deficits / Theodosius Dobzhansky. Jensen and Educational Differences / Carl Bereiter. Science or Superstition? / David Layzer.
    ISBN
    0812925874 :
    LCCN
    95003797
    OCLC
    31969295
    RCP
    C - O
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