The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist...
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Normal distribution (redirect from The bell-shaped curve)
explicit form when the relevant variables are normally distributed. A normal distribution is sometimes informally called a bell curve. However, many other...
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Look up bell curve, bell curves, or bell-shaped in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The bell curve is typical of the normal distribution. Bell curve may also...
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Gaussian function (redirect from Area under the bell curve)
after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The graph of a Gaussian is a characteristic symmetric "bell curve" shape. The parameter a is the height...
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The Bell Curve Debate is a 1995 book edited by the historian Russell Jacoby and the writer Naomi Glauberman. A response to The Bell Curve (1994), by the...
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Richard Lynn (redirect from The Global Bell Curve)
work was among the main sources cited in the book The Bell Curve, and he was one of 52 scientists who signed an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal...
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In statistics, an inverted bell curve is a term used loosely or metaphorically to refer to a bimodal distribution that falls to a trough between two peaks...
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Norm-referenced test (redirect from Bell curve grading)
marking on a curve (BrE) or grading on a curve (AmE, CanE) (also referred to as curved grading, bell curving, or using grading curves). It is a method...
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Charles Murray (political scientist) (category Far-right politics in the United States)
American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (1984) discussed the American welfare system. In the book The Bell Curve (1994), he and co-author Richard Herrnstein argue...
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A bell-shaped function or simply 'bell curve' is a mathematical function having a characteristic "bell"-shaped curve. These functions are typically continuous...
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Richard Herrnstein (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Charles Murray, he co-wrote The Bell Curve, a controversial 1994 book on human intelligence. He was one of the founders of the Society for Quantitative Analysis...
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Cracking the Bell Curve Myth is a 1996 book by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. The book...
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Race and intelligence (category Articles tagged with the inline citation overkill template from June 2024)
settings (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million). In response to the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve, the American Psychological Association...
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pedal curve Fish curve Orthotomic Parallel curve Pedal curve Radial curve Roulette Strophoid Bathtub curve Bell curve Calibration curve Curve of growth...
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Mankind Quarterly (redirect from The Mankind Quarterly)
the Pioneer Fund in the 1980s and 1990s. During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents of The Bell Curve publicised...
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National Federation of Republican Assemblies (category Political organizations based in the United States)
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) is a political organization which promotes conservative principles and candidates within the Republican...
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A vitality curve is a performance management practice that calls for individuals to be ranked or rated against their coworkers. It is also called stack...
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Scientific racism (redirect from Scientific racism in the United States)
biological one. The term scientific racism is generally used pejoratively when applied to more modern theories, such as those in The Bell Curve (1994). Critics...
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Herrnstein and Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve (1994). Stephen Jay Gould (/ɡuːld/; 1941 – 2002) was one of the most influential and widely read authors...
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bias. In response to controversy sparked by the publication of The Bell Curve in 1994, a 1995 task force by the American Psychological Association found...
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focuses on the 'normal,' particularly with 'bell curve' methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large...
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followed the publication in 1994 of The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Their book prompted a renewal of debate on the issue and the publication...
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Andrew Sullivan (redirect from The Daily Dish)
of the research and arguments presented in The Bell Curve, writing, "The book ... still holds up as one of the most insightful and careful of the last...
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Mainstream Science on Intelligence (category The Wall Street Journal)
published originally in The Wall Street Journal on December 13, 1994, as a response to criticism of the book The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and...
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Hillbilly Elegy (category Rural society in the United States)
in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown...
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Flynn effect (redirect from The Flynn Effect)
The term was coined by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their 1994 book The Bell Curve. Flynn stated that, if asked, he would have named the effect...
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Technology adoption life cycle (redirect from Adoption curve)
adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve". The model calls the first group...
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phenomenon was named the Flynn effect in the book The Bell Curve after James R. Flynn, the author who did the most to bring this phenomenon to the attention of...
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Charlie Kirk (redirect from The Charlie Kirk Show)
He is the CEO of Turning Point Action, Turning Point Academy, Turning Point Faith, president of Turning Point Endowment, and a member of the Council...
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closer on the bell curve to 40 than it is to 20. If the distribution is normally distributed, the percentile rank can be inferred from the standard score...
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