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Ed Seedhouse wrote:
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Nick wrote:
Does VKarlamov approve of the 1994 book, 'The Bell Curve: Intelligence
and Class Structure in American Life', by Richard Herrnstein and
Charles Murray?

"The Bell Curve" is well-known pseudoscience, and anyone who relies
on it to support an argument will rapidly become a laughingstock.

Two questiuons beg to be asked he

1. Is "The Bell Curve" is well-known pseudoscience?
Are there no respectable scientists who support it?
Please give precise quotes from that book, where the authors
made scientific mistakes. If you know them of course.
I will await your examples.

If VKarlamov has a sincere interest in this matter, then
he should read the books that I already have cited:

"The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions"
"The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future
of America"

Are there any 'respectable scientists' who support
'The Bell Curve'?

52 persons signed an 1994 'Wall Street Journal' editorial,
'Mainstream Science on Intelligence' (a pretentious and
misleading title) written by Linda Gottfredson, which
supported many, though not necessarily all, of the
positions given in 'The Bell Curve'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstr...n_Intelligence

I am not familiar with most of the signatories' names.
But I do know some of them (e.g. J. Philippe Rushton) have
been strongly condemned as racists by other academics.
Many of the signatories have received grants from a foundation
associated with the extreme right-wing in the United States.

As far as I know, only a small minority of 'scientists'
('respectable' or otherwise) would endorse the conclusions
of 'The Bell Curve'.

--Nick