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	Curveball
		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.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~chance/course/topics/curveball.html (3228 words)

	VDARE.com: 10/10/04 - “You Have To Tell The Truth”—The Bell Curve After Ten Years
		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.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/bell_curve_10yr.htm (2750 words)

	IQ Since "The Bell Curve"
		N The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray set out to prove that American society was becoming increasingly meritocratic, in the sense that wealth and other positive social outcomes were being distributed more and more according to people's intelligence and less and less according to their social backgrounds.
		Just as with The Bell Curve, only a small portion of Herrnstein's 1971 article dealt with differences among groups, and only a portion of that portion dealt with possible genetic influences on those differences; and, just as with The Bell Curve, these were the passages that received the greatest attention.
		O THE extent that it is not simply political, the debate that followed The Bell Curve and "IQ," and that lies at the heart of Gould's critique in The Mismeasure of Man, is over the very existence and coherence of general intelligence.
	www.wjh.harvard.edu /~cfc/Chabris1998a.html (4919 words)

	The Bell Curve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the role of intelligence in American life.
		Perhaps the most prominent critic of The Bell Curve was the late Stephen Jay Gould, who in 1996 released a revised and expanded edition of his 1981 work The Mismeasure of Man intended to refute many of The Bell Curve's claims regarding race and intelligence.
		The Bell Curve provided the first discussion of the Flynn effect aimed at a general audience, and was the first work to refer to it by that name (pp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bell_Curve (2654 words)

	The Bell Curve and its Critics
		The critics of The Bell Curve are putting him on the front page, often outrageously caricaturing his work.(5) The trouble with this strategy is that Rushton is a serious scholar who has assembled serious data.
		The topic of African IQ is a tiny piece of The Bell Curve: a three-paragraph section in chapter 13 intended to address a hypothesis Herrnstein and I heard frequently, that the test scores of American fls have been depressed by the experience of slavery.
		Perhaps the most important section of The Bell Curve is Part II, "Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior." It describes the relationship of IQ to poverty, school-dropout rates, unemployment, divorce, illegitimacy, welfare, parenting, crime, and citizenship.
	www.euvolution.com /articles/bellcurve.html (6372 words)

	The Well Curve (inverted bell curve)
		Previously, the "bell curve" defined normal statistical distribution, and it became a fundamental law of natural science, a cornerstone of statistics.
		This "bell curve" defined normal statistical distribution, and it became a fundamental law of natural science, a cornerstone of statistics.
		The bell curve implies that the majority, the middle segment, is somewhat satisfied.
	www.jimpinto.com /writings/wellcurve.html (877 words)

	Bell curve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Normal distribution, in statistics, the graph of the probability density function of the normal distribution is sometimes called the bell curve due to its shape
		The Bell Curve, a controversial book that examines intelligence as a factor in US social problems
		Bell curve grading, a method of grading examinations
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bell_curve (118 words)

	The Bell Curve Debate
		According to The Bell Curve, there is an increasing isolated cognitive elite, a merging of the cognitive elite with the affluent and a deteriorating quality of life for people at the bottom end of the cognitive ability distribution.
		The Bell Curve is a feel-good book for high achievers and those love the idea of withdrawing from corroding society by way of gated communities, private schools and insulated lives.
		The Bell Curve raised a storm and the dust hasn’t settled; calling people inferior because they are so programmed genetically is the most racist attitude we can take but the actions of the society that is apparently turned-off by the book are pointing to another direction.
	niazi.com /Neurons/bell.htm (2201 words)

	Wiggin and Dana's Franchise Law Blog: Bell Curve
		Bell objected to the deal at first, but then grew interested and even considered rolling corporate-owned boutiques into the income trust.
		Bell engaged in negotiations with the franchisees and Mitchell’s group throughout 2005.
		Bell allegedly ordered at least five franchisees to withdraw from the lawsuit or face reversal of Bell’s previous approval to expand or relocate their business.
	www.franchiselawblog.com /archives/000988.html (301 words)

	Reifman, Alan (2000) Revisiting the Bell Curve, Psycoloquy: 11,#99 Bell Curve (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, it is the opinion of the present author that three major pillars of TBC - the genetic contribution to IQ, the importance of IQ (and lack of importance of other factors) for predicting life outcomes, and the relative fixedness of cognitive ability -- have sustained major damage during the past five years.
		Comparing TBC's contentions about the importance of IQ in determining life outcomes to what newer analyses reveal is made somewhat difficult by the fact that observers exhibit a fair amount of disagreement over exactly what Herrnstein and Murray (1994) were saying.
		Even by the time TBC first came out, commentators had seized upon the fact that the statistical relationships reported by Herrnstein and Murray (1994) between IQ and outcomes such as poverty and crime were small or modest in magnitude (e.g., Gould, 1994).
	psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /archive/00000099 (5535 words)

	Panache \| RAISING BELL'S CURVE
		Bell wrote his own cadenzas for these classic works, which he performs with lithe, airy tone and patrician grace.
		Joshua Bell is a former child prodigy turned honored adult musician, a superstar of classical music whose Romance of the Violin CD scored on Billboard’s pop chart and an unconscionably handsome 37-year-old who charms fans of all ages.
		Bell takes special pride in his involvement with new works and hopes to spend more time himself composing and conducting.
	www.panachemag.com /Archive/11_05/Features/Bell/Bell.asp (1117 words)

	Wired 11.05: START
		This bell curve, as it was dubbed, defined "normal distribution" - and it became a fundamental law of natural science, an elementary truth about the nature of reality.
		Although bell curve distribution is still considered normal, a surprising number of economic and social phenomena now seem to follow a different arc.
		The 180 from bell curve to well curve has turned their logic on its head.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.05/start.html?pg=2 (799 words)

	The Return of Determinism?
		If the impression takes root that these tests really measure intelligence, that they constitute a sort of last judgment on the child's capacity, that they reveal "scientifically" his predestined ability, then it would be a thousand times better if all the intelligence testers and all their questionnaires were sunk without warning in the Sargasso Sea.
		The disinformation masquerading as "sound science" in the Bell Curve should be particularly challenged by scientists.
		A new book that unlike the Bell Curve, has not been given much media attention, but is definitely a far better read.
	www.rso.cornell.edu /scitech/archive/95sum/bell.html (3022 words)

	Quick facts about the normal curve
		The area between the curve and the horizontal axis is exactly 1.
		The curve will be approximately the normal curve, though shifted right (I'd guess about 140 pounds worth) and stretched horizontally by a factor of about, say, 5 lbs [averages tend to cancel out extremes of variation].
		The normal curve is often called the Gaussian distribution, after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who discovered many of its properties.
	www.willamette.edu /~mjaneba/help/normalcurve.html (691 words)

	Education Policy Analysis Archives: Vol. 4 No. 20 Kupermintz "The Bell Curve: Corrected for Skew"
		The Bell Curve is distinguished by its extensive use of statistical analyses to support a strong social theory.
		Although the magnitude of these effects or their explanation are debatable, the IQ scores used in The Bell Curve to demonstrate the independent role of a cognitive endowment are caused to an important degree by parent's SES.
		It seems that The Bell Curve has no new story to tell here, but presenting such an extreme situation as an example of the general effect of IQ on social consequences is neither informative nor especially valid.
	epaa.asu.edu /epaa/v4n20.html (4918 words)

	eBay - bell curve, The Bell Curve, Textbooks, Education items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Bell Curve by Charles Murray, Richard J. Herrnst...
		The Bell Curve Debate by Russell Jacoby (1995)
		The Bell Curve, Murray and Herrnstein 1994 HB/DJ/LIKE NEW
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=bell+curve&newu=1&krd=1 (351 words)

	The Bell Curve -- Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Bell Curve got so much positive attention as a revolutionary, critical review of issues so current and pressing within our society, at the time, and today that I felt I would really appreciate reading it and reviewing the authors scientific efforts.
		I continually read that the Bell Curve is about the relationship between "Intellect" and "Ethnicity"; this simply is NOT the case.
		It is scary to me, but when I, a student of the Bell Curve, see these commentators on telivision or read of them in the papers....
	www.murrayco.com /the_bell_curve_book_review.html (410 words)

	Bell Curve Rolls :: d20srd.org
		The bell curve variant adheres more tightly to that average (which is the reason behind the reduction in CR for monsters encountered in groups).
		Another subtle change to the game is that the bell curve variant awards bonuses relatively more and the die roll relatively less, simply because the die roll is almost always within a few points of 10.
		With the bell curve variant, the narrowest threat range becomes slightly more narrow (4.6% rather than 5%), and the new 14-18 range (16%) falls between the old 18-20 and 17-20 ranges.
	www.d20srd.org /srd/variant/adventuring/bellCurveRolls.htm (978 words)

	Measuring Progress - Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Advocate and Attorney by Pete and Pam Wright
		Using the bell curve, you can compare a single child's score to the scores obtained by other children who are older or younger or in different grades.
		In fact, the variance is very large and would present a highly unusual curve with a peak at 5, a drop to zero between 6 and 13, then a jump at 14, a drop at 15, another jump at 16.
		The next marker on the bell curve is +1 and -1 standard deviations from the mean, followed by 2 standard deviations from the mean.
	www.wrightslaw.com /advoc/articles/tests_measurements.html (11292 words)

	Basketball's Bell Curve
		Before that book, the bell curve was just another name for a common look seen in statistics.
		This is approximately a Gaussian distribution, as statisticians formally call the bell curve.
		The spread of the bell curve is larger for an inconsistent team than for a consistent team.
	www.rawbw.com /~deano/articles/BellCurve.html (1533 words)

	Human Intelligence: The Bell Curve
		The Bell Curve begins with fundamental and important assumptions, makes assertions (supported by the authorís evidence), draws conclusions based on statistical analysis of the evidentiary data, and concludes with wide-ranging recommendations for national policy-makers to follow.
		The Bell Curve, in its introduction, begins with a brief description of the history of intelligence theory and recent developments in intelligence thought and testing, through the eyes of the authors.
		The fact that Herrnstein and Murray barely mention the factor-analytic argument forms a central indictment of The Bell Curve and is an illustration of its vacuousness.
	www.indiana.edu /~intell/bellcurve.shtml (5488 words)

	The Bell Curve Flattened - By Nicholas Lemann - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Proving The Bell Curve's thesis would require proving that success increasingly correlates with IQ in areas of life where mental tests are not the explicit gatekeepers.
		Most of The Bell Curve's analysis is devoted to proving that IQ has more predictive power than parental "socio-economic status." But Herrnstein and Murray's method of figuring socioeconomic status seems designed to low-ball its influence, as Case Study Four explains.
		The chapter of The Bell Curve on policies that might be able to overcome the fate of a low IQ focuses mainly on whether early-childhood programs like Head Start (most of which aren't run with raising IQ as their primary goal) can raise IQ significantly over the long term, and sorrowfully concludes that they can't.
	slate.msn.com /id/2416 (2357 words)

	Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		It is a nice bell curve, peaking a little higher, they have more reserves than we do, and later because we entered the industrial age with vigor before the Soviet Union was quite there.
		And that is not a bell curve for the reason I mentioned before because we had to develop the fields and they waited for the pipeline, and then it would surge through the pipeline when it was developed.
		So this curve is likely to be much lower than this curve; and notice that if it is, in fact, going to be renewable, it cannot go to an unrealistic height.
	www.energybulletin.net /4733.html (8275 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life: Books: Richard J. Herrnstein,Charles Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On that basis I read the Bell Curve with an open mind, only to find that it kept reminding me of a poster campaign I'd seen in South London shortly after the 1981 Brixton Riots.
		The Bell Curve highlights statistical correlations between IQ test scores and various factors, including educational attainment, employment and criminal conviction but it doesn't prove any cause-and-effect relationships.
		Contrary to what you may have heard, The Bell Curve is not some sort of racist polemic.
	amazon.co.uk /Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-American/dp/0684824299 (1435 words)

	Bell Curve Debate
		Surely no reader of this column needs to be told what The Bell Curve, probably the most reviewed and discussed book of this or any recent year, has to say.
		Just as the authors of The Bell Curve (hereafter TBC) could have saved me a lot of time in l974, the editors of The Bell Curve Debate (hereafter TBCD) could have saved me a lot of trouble in l994.
		TBC clearly generates two areas of dispute-the scientific and the political.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/special/Bell-Curve-Debate.html (2584 words)

	Do you really want that grade "curved"?
		Students generally assume that curving means an upward adjustment of low test scores, but the basis of the practice derives from assumptions about statistical distributions of scores (bell curve).
		Notice that the distribution of students is skewed toward the higher end of the curve, but then Hamilton students are intelligent, and they are good workers.
		I resist distorting class perceptions by "curving" each test score during the term, but the final assignment of grades suggests they are effectively "curved".
	academics.hamilton.edu /biology/smiller/curve.html (1373 words)

	OpinionJournal - BELL CURVE
		When the late Richard Herrnstein and I published "The Bell Curve" 11 years ago, the furor over its discussion of ethnic differences in IQ was so intense that most people who have not read the book still think it was about race.
		In the autumn of 1994, I had watched with dismay as "The Bell Curve" 's scientifically unremarkable statements about fl IQ were successfully labeled as racist pseudoscience.
		In the aftermath of "The Bell Curve," the American Psychological Association established a task force on intelligence whose report was published in early 1996.
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110007391 (7236 words)

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