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Curveball (3228 words) |
 | But, in violation of all statistical norms that I've even learned, they plot only the regression curve and do not show the scatter of variation around the curve, so their graphs do not show anything about the strength of the relationships—that is, the amount of variation in social factors explained by IQ and socioeconomic status. |
| I am delighted that The Bell Curve was written–so that its errors could be exposed, for Herrnstein and Murray are right to point out the difference between public and private agendas on race, and we must struggle to make an impact on the private agendas as well. |
| But The Bell Curve is scarcely an academic treatise in social theory and population genetics. |
| VDARE.com: 10/10/04 - You Have To Tell The TruthThe Bell Curve After Ten Years (2750 words) |
| The publication of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by the late Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray in October 1994 was one of the pivotal events of the last decade. |
| The neocons' slow distancing of themselves from The Bell Curve marked the death of neoconservatism as a serious intellectual movement. |
| In neoconservatism's post-Bell Curve atmosphere of anti-realism, enthusiasm mounted for utopian schemes to remodel the Middle East using the U.S. military as a hammer. |
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