Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell CurveBernie Devlin This is author-approved bcc. If it is too long, delete the last sentence in each of the biographies. THE BELL CURVE by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, a best selling book published in 1994, set off a hailstorm of controversy about the relationships among IQ, genetics, and various social outcomes, including welfare dependency, crime, and earnings. Much of the public reaction to the book was polemical and did not focus on the details of the science and in particular on the validity of the statistical arguments that underlie the books's conclusions. A detailed understanding of the arguments in THE BELL CURVE requires knowledge about (i) statistical models for genetic heritability, (ii) factor analysis, especially as it has been applied to the analysis of IQ tests, (iii) logistic regression and multiple regression analyses,and (iv) causal modelling and alternative statistical frameworks for making inference from longitudinal data. In this volume a group of statisticians and social scientists have assembled a scientific response to THE BELL CURVE. The sixteen chapters begin by presenting an overview of the scientific and statistical issues and summarize the material in Herrnstein and Murray's book. Then separate chapters by various experts deal with more focused issues, including reanalyses of data relied upon by the authors of THE BELL CURVE. The final chapters consider some of the implications of the work described in the book for American public policy and scientific research. BERNIE DEVLIN is Program Director of the Computational Genetics Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He serves on |
Contents
Overview | 1 |
A Synopsis of The Bell Curve | 19 |
The GeneticsIntelligence Link | 41 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AFQT African Americans American argue argument assumptions ASVAB average Bell Curve blacks causal chapter child coefficients cognitive ability cognitive elite competence controlling correlation crime criminal activity dataset dependent variable differential discrimination disease distribution dysgenics early intervention early IQ earnings economic effect of education environment environmental estimate ethnic evidence example experience factor analysis factor matrix females fluid intelligence Flynn effect Galton gender genes genetic Head Head Start heritability Herrnstein and Murray high school human increase individuals influence intelligence factor IQ scores IQ tests Journal LISREL males mean measured mental methods Murray's National NLSY outcomes parental education population poverty predicted preschool principal component problems programs Psychology psychometric quantitative genetics race regression regressors relationship response Review Richard Herrnstein sample society socioeconomic standard statistical structure studies Table test scores theory top-decile tuberculosis variance wage York Zigler