• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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