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What Is Intelligence, and Who Has It? New York Times, October 16, 1994, Section 7; Page 3 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: New York Times Keyword(s): Economics of Minorities; I.Q.; Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Underclass Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This book review of Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve" discusses not only the text itself, but also some of the historical background of intelligence tests and how they have been utilized. Herrnstein and Murray's argument is that an intellectual underclass is developing in America due to the "elites" reproducing at lower rate then their less intelligent counterparts. This review points out that much of the evidentiary support of "The Bell Curve" comes from analysis of NLSY79 data, from which the authors conclude that "the biggest influence on the lives of the people in their sample was the "g" factor -- psychometricians' jargon for core intelligence." |
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Browne, Malcolm W. "What Is Intelligence, and Who Has It?" New York Times, October 16, 1994, Section 7; Page 3. |