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 PS: As a public service to those who might disagree with comma usage in the above, I am providing below a pool of both commas and zero-elements (which can be used to erase commas) for individual reader use below: [, , , ] -----Original Message----- From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of DD Farms Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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. To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/