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The Bell Curve

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…

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Publication date
1994
Publisher
Free Press
Authors
Richard J. Herrnstein Charles Murray
Dewey Decimal
305.9/082 20
LC Class
BF431 .H398 1994
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback)

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related to "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" statement · 18
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related to Cognitive sorting and the "cognitive elite" concept · 11
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related to Use of Armed Forces Qualification Test · 9
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