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. |
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... centile ) , for example - entered a two- or four - year college . But fewer than 2 per- cent of them actually completed a bachelor's degree . Meanwhile , about 70 percent of the students in the top decile of ability were completing a ...
... centile ) , for example - entered a two- or four - year college . But fewer than 2 per- cent of them actually completed a bachelor's degree . Meanwhile , about 70 percent of the students in the top decile of ability were completing a ...
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... centile who are so concentrated in a handful of universi- ties during their college years ? We have little to tell us exactly what is hap- pening now , but we know what the situation was fifty years ago , through Lewis Terman's famous ...
... centile who are so concentrated in a handful of universi- ties during their college years ? We have little to tell us exactly what is hap- pening now , but we know what the situation was fifty years ago , through Lewis Terman's famous ...
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... centiles in ability . nomic benefit of using a test would then decline . But if testing tended to place the smartest people in the jobs where the test - job correlations are large , the spread of the productivity distributions is broad ...
... centiles in ability . nomic benefit of using a test would then decline . But if testing tended to place the smartest people in the jobs where the test - job correlations are large , the spread of the productivity distributions is broad ...
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Contents
| 25 | |
| 51 | |
| 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 |
Poverty | 636 |
Supplemental Material for Chapter 13 | 649 |
Regression Analyses from Chapter 14 | 669 |
Notes | 689 |
Bibliography | 801 |
Schooling | 805 |
Unemployment Idleness and Injury | 821 |
Index | 859 |
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Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Richard J. Herrnstein,Charles Murray No preview available - 1996 |
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