Research Paper on:
Bell Curve Negation and Flaws in IQ Testing

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The Bell Curve is discussed and refuted. Bibliography lists 6 sources. SA120bel.doc The publication of The Bell Curve sparked debates when it proposed that intelligence  is genetically determined and further, that race is a factor. While the underlying disagreement was in a sense a nature versus nurture debate as well, political correctness entered the discussion.  And it went further. Authors of The Bell Curve contend that it is intelligence, or lack of it, which causes social problems. Thus, what it comes down to is that  intelligence determines ones life chances. The book gets controversial when it classifies intelligence by race. With the racial tension, between blacks and  whites in America, and with African Americans at the bottom of Murray and Herrnsteins curve, it is no wonder that the book stirred up tensions. Charges of blatant racism were  made against authors. Books with titles such as The Bell Curve Debate, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, and The Bell Curve Wars soon followed. Shortly before the  book came out, in October of 1993, a Wall Street Journal article appeared by the same Charles Murray entitled "The coming white underclass." He also published other controversial pieces, one  entitled "Does Welfare Bring More Babies?" All of these works caused a stir and there was an appropriate backlash. One of Murrays articles appeared in the St. Louis Post  in December of 1993 and concerns illegitimacy among black women. The article starts with statistics. For example, the author notes that in the inner cities, illegitimate births to black women  is about 80% (Murray,1993,p.07B). He then suggests that the black story is irrelevant. It is the escalation of white illegitimacy that is the problem. Citing more statistics, the author concludes