The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. |
Contents
25 | |
Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation | 51 |
The Economic Pressure to Partition | 85 |
Family Matters | 167 |
Welfare Dependency | 191 |
Parenting | 203 |
Crime | 235 |
Civility and Citizenship | 253 |
Affirmative Action in the Workplace | 479 |
The Way We Are Headed | 509 |
A Place for Everyone | 527 |
AFTERWORD | 553 |
Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Cant Learn Statistics | 577 |
Technical Issues Regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth | 593 |
Technical Issues Regarding the Armed Forces Qualification Test as a Measure of IQ | 603 |
Regression Analyses from Part II | 617 |
PART III | 267 |
Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability | 269 |
PART II | 315 |
Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ | 317 |
The Demography of Intelligence | 341 |
Social Behavior and the Prevalence of Low Cognitive Ability | 369 |
PART IV | 387 |
Raising Cognitive Ability | 389 |
The Leveling of American Education | 417 |
Affirmative Action in Higher Education | 447 |
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Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Richard J. Herrnstein,Charles Murray No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
affirmative action AFQT American analysis Arthur Jensen Asian B/W difference babies behavior Bell Curve bias birth black-white difference blacks and whites centile Chapter child chronic welfare recipients cognitive classes cognitive elite controlling for IQ correlation crime criminal decile distribution dropout dysgenic effect environment Error ChiSquare Prob>ChiSq Estimate Std Error ethnic differences example factor Flynn effect genetic graduates high school higher illegitimacy income independent variables IQ scores IQ tests Jensen labor force Latinos less low IQ marriage mean IQ measure mothers NLSY sample nomic occupations overall parents percent percentile points political population poverty poverty line predictive proportion quartile rates regression relationship role social socioeconomic background socioeconomic status Source DF LogLikelihood Spearman's hypothesis standard deviation standard scores statistical Std Error ChiSquare studies subtests test scores Test Source DF tion variables white women Whole-Model Test Source zAFQT89 zAge zSES