This book was called the Bell Curve, and it was completely, utterly wrong. The 
science and the conclusions were intentionally misleading, trying to prove a 
point reached before the research started.

It was not that it was politically incorrect (meaning that it said things that 
"should not be said in polite society"), but that it was politically incorrect 
(meaning it reached wrong conclusions for purely political reasons).

Read "The Mismeasure of Man" if you want to understand how bad the science was.


Jerry Johnson
Web Developer
Dolan Media Company

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/18/05 12:03PM >>>
>From what I've read this is a mis-understanding of what he said
similar to the guy who, about 10 years ago, came out with a book based
on his scientific studies which said, among other things, that on
average Afro-americans had lower IQs and larger units than either
whites or Asians.





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