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Re: THE BELL CURVE
David A. Johns (djohns@grove.ufl.edu)
2 Feb 1995 09:15:43 GMT
In article <dexter.791569719@aries> dexter@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Frosch) writes:
# i haven't read 'the bell curve' (and if i do, i certainly
# will not buy it), but i read murray's 13-odd page article in 'the
# new republic'. one of the things that most riled me was that,
# after having supposedly shown that IQ correlates meaningfully
# with more or less everything a member of a modern industrial
# society would care about (income, health, morality, social
# status...) he then at the end disingenuously suggests that no-one
# should care much about about their IQ. along the lines of
# 'everyone is really quite happy in their place, no-one anyway
# wants to be much brighter or dumber than they already are, so
# what's the big fuss?' the big fuss is that according to his
# concept, IQ determines everything else! a person might not care
# about the numbers, but they will damn well care what their health
# and social standing are like, their income, their children's
# chances... and that little slip at the end said a lot to me about
# what murray's agenda is.
Why do you call it a slip? The "happy clan" business seemed pretty
well thought out to me.
David Johns
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