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Old 04-23-2010, 09:11 AM   #134
WT Sharpe
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A while back a book called The Bell Curve also rang a lot of warning bells but was widely put down in the media - though again the science looked correct.
The late Stephen Jay Gould did a pretty thorough de-bunking of The Bell Curve. I first read of his critique in his book The Mismeasure of Man (2nd edition).

Gould's appraisal of The Bell Curve can be found at https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/co...curveball.html
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