October 26, 1994
Class, IQ, and Heredity
Scholars' book revives old debate on racial differences in intelligence
Few things in late-20th-century America are as contentious as the suggestion that blacks are inherently less intelligent than whites. The idea has caused uproars repeatedly in the past, and it happened again this month, when the Free Press released The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray.
The book is a dense analysis of the links between intelligence and social class. It argues that I.Q. is largely
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