Dear All:

Just tossing in a note: a brief and journalistic, but potentially
useful, account of later research and criticism of _The Bell Curve_ can
be found at http://www.slate.com/id/2416/.

--- Bill Spruiell

Dept. of English 
Central Michigan University

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:55 PM
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Subject: Re: IQ as good predictor

At 06:26 PM 9/17/2007, Castilleja, Janet wrote:
>I would suggest that people, whether they read The Bell Curve (I have)
>or not, read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man.  In my opinion,
>it's hard to beat Gould for lucid, readable, scientifically supported
>explanations.

DD: I have read both. Gould was not a psychometrician. He was writing 
out of his field of expertise. Still, he wrote well. I have enjoyed 
reading him in other genres, that were also out of his field. How 
accurate they were I wot not, but they were interesting. I'd 
recommend that a person interested read, "The Bell Curve" first. 
Start with the easy sections, marked as such. Then the harder ones, 
and then dive into the third sections, and scrutinize the references 
and footnotes, along the way. Then read Gould's book.  

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