Read The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Online
Authors: Richard J. Herrnstein,Charles A. Murray
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (2 page)
In the first half of the century, the high school diploma becomes the norm
For temporary dropouts, the importance of SES increases sharply
For white youths, being smart is more important than being privileged in getting a college degree
Since mid-century, teenage boys not in school are increasingly not employed either
IQ and socioeconomic background have opposite effects on leaving the labor force among white men
In the early 1970s, the marriage rate began a prolonged decline for no immediately apparent reason
Overview of studies of reporting black-white differences in cognitive test scores, 1918-1990
The black and white IQ distributions in the NLSY, Version II
Black IQ scores go up with socioeconomic status, but the black-white difference does not shrink
After controlling for IQ, ethnic wage differentials shrink from thousands to a few hundred dollars
Controlling for IQ cuts the poverty differential by 77 percent for blacks and 74 percent for Latinos
Controlling for IQ explains little of the large black-white difference in marriage rates
Controlling for IQ cuts the black-white disparity in low-birth-weight babies by half
Controlling for IQ more than eliminates overall ethnic differences in the developmental indexes
Controlling for IQ cuts the black-white difference in incarceration by almost three-quarters
Fertility falls as educational level rises in similar fashion for black, white, and Latino women
The swing in social problems that can result from small shifts in the mean IQ of a population
Forty-eight percent of the poor in 1989 came from the bottom 20 percent in intelligence
Two-thirds of high school dropouts came from the bottom 20 percent in intelligence
Forty-five percent of women who ever received welfare were in the bottom 20 percent of intelligence
Fifty-seven percent of chronic welfare recipients were in the bottom 20 percent of intelligence
Forty-five percent of low-birth-weight babies had mothers in the bottom 20 percent of intelligence
A half-century of Iowa tests: Improvement as the norm, the slump as a twelve-year aberration
Among the most gifted students, there is good news about math, bad news about verbal
When aggressive affirmative action began, black college enrollment surged for a decade
The uncertain effects of affirmative action in the workplace
List of TablesIn the 1970s, economic growth began to enlarge the affluent class
The Role of
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in Explaining Training Success for Various Military Specialties
The Validity of Some Different Predictors of Job Performance
Which White Young Men Spent a Month or More Out of the Labor Force in 1989?
Which White Young Men Spent a Month or More Unemployed in 1989?
Which White Women Go on Welfare After the Birth of the First Child?
Which White Children Are Behind in Motor and Social Development?
The Odds of Getting Involved with the Police and Courts for Young White Males
Reductions in the Black-White Difference on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
The Next Generation So Far, for Three Ethnic Groups in the NLSY
Regression to the Mean and Ethnic Differences in Test Scores in Two Generations
Prevalence of Low IQ Among Mothers of Children with Developmental Problems
What SAT Score Decline? The Results of the National Norm Studies, 1955-1983
Affirmative Action Weights: The Medical College Admissions Test
A Note to the Reader
We have designed
The Bell Curve
to be read at several levels.
At the simplest level, it is only about thirty pages long. Each chapter except the Introduction and the final two chapters opens with a precis of the main findings and conclusions minus any evidence for them, written in an informal style free of technical terms. You can get a good idea of what we have to say by reading just those introductory essays.