Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman have edited a book on race, class, and intelligence that will stand for the foreseeable future as the authoritative guide to the extraordinary controversy ignited by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's incendiary bestseller, The Bell Curve. The editors have gathered together both the best of recent reviews and essays, and salient documents drawn from the curious history of this heated debate. The Bell Curve Debate captures the fervor, anger, and scope of an almost unprecedented national argument over the very idea of democracy and the possibility of a tolerant, multiracial America. It is an essential companion and answer to The Bell Curve, and provides scholarship and polemic from every point of view. It is a must-read for the informed citizen in search of all the views fit to print.
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Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman have edited a book on race, class, and intelligence that will stand for the foreseeable future as the authoritative guide to the extraordinary controversy ignited by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's incendiary bestseller, The Bell Curve. The editors have gathered together both the best of recent reviews and essays, and salient documents drawn from the curious history of this heated debate. The Bell Curve Debate captures the fervor, anger, and scope of an almost unprecedented national argument over the very idea of democracy and the possibility of a tolerant, multiracial America. It is an essential companion and answer to The Bell Curve, and provides scholarship and polemic from every point of view. It is a must-read for the informed citizen in search of all the views fit to print.
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Russell Jacoby is the author of numerous books, including Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America and The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. He teaches history at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Naomi Glauberman is a writer who lives in Venice, California.
Naomi Glauberman is a writer who lives in Venice, California.
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14 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real thought provoker consisting of great essays.,
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This review is from: The Bell Curve Debate (Paperback)
While the Bell Curve has stirred up a whirlwind of controversy, the Bell Curve Debate is actually the better of the two books. This book has great rebuttals by the likes Stephen Jay Gould, Howard Gardner, Carl Rowan and many more. It even includes some of the classic papers on these matters such "On Breeding Good Stock" by Karl Pearson.
Given a choice between reading the Bell Curve or the Bell Curve Debate, the Bell Curve Debate is the clear choice.
12 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good resource on a complicated topic,
By Al Kihano (Iskandria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bell Curve Debate (Paperback)
It's hard to imagine a better or more balanced collection of essays on the topic of intelligence testing and _The Bell Curve_. The essays present various sides of the debate, featuring perspectives from psychologists, biologists, historians, and theorists. Especially illuminating were sections dealing with _TBC_'s authors' funding source, a clandestine eugenics think-tank in New York. Also, you can find some good pro-Bell Curve articles here, although the bias certainly seems to be in favour of con- (a relection, I believe, of the academic consensus_.
20 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Finally, low IQ people have their say in the debate,
This review is from: The Bell Curve Debate (Paperback)
When I read/skimmed/read about The Bell Curve, which is some sort of book about intelligence, I felt a chill run down my spine (or maybe it was up--hard to tell). What if I was not intelligent? It is a fear shared by many in academia, who have come together to denounce the idea of intelligence in this wonderful book.
It's all well and good for scientists to say that various tests and measurements predict intelligence, but what do economists and journalists have to say? And why don't I ever score "well" on any of these "tests"? At last, The Bell Curve Debate answers this compelling quesion. I don't score well because the tests are wrong! It turns out that the best way to find out whether someone is intelligent is just to ask him. If he is a university professor who studies dinosaurs, or Carl Rowan, he will definitely say "yes"! This is a valid contribution to my thoughts on intelligence, which I believe you will share. It also helped me stop thinking about why Africa has always been a backwards cesspool. Turns out it's just a hilarious coincidence! P.S. Despite my praise of the book, I had to give it only two stars because none of the essays are written by Hollywood actors.
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