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"And another Eyferth sighting!"

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Anonymous yo said...

in 1994 Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, in “The Bell Curve,” notoriously proposed that Americans with the lowest I.Q.s be sequestered in a “high-tech” version of an Indian reservation, “while the rest of America tries to go about its business.”

"proposed" and "argued against" are so close in meaning that its easy to get them confused

12/10/07, 2:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, in “The Bell Curve,” notoriously proposed that Americans with the lowest I.Q.s be sequestered in a “high-tech” version of an Indian reservation

Speaking of eternal sightings. Almost 15 years later, and undying Bell Curve hatred would still be just a tad bit more convincing if any of its critics showed any evidence that they actually read the book.

H+M predicted such an America, but certainly didn't want America to look like that! Unfortunately the same American elites who condemn the book are doing everything in their power to make America look like that. So who really wants that future for us?

Rain And

12/10/07, 2:21 PM

Anonymous yo said...

a quick check of Wikipedia shows what H&M really wrote:

In a discussion of the future political outcomes of an intellectually stratified society, they stated that they "fear that a new kind of conservatism is becoming the dominant ideology of the affluent - not in the social tradition of an Edmund Burke or in the economic tradition of an Adam Smith but 'conservatism' along Latin American lines, where to be conservative has often meant doing whatever is necessary to preserve the mansions on the hills from the menace of the slums below" (p. 518). Moreover, they fear that increasing welfare will create a "custodial state" in "a high-tech and more lavish version of the Indian reservation for some substantial minority of the nation's population." They also predict increasing totalitarianism: "It is difficult to imagine the United States preserving its heritage of individualism, equal rights before the law, free people running their own lives, once it is accepted that a significant part of the population must be made permanent wards of the states" (p. 526).

12/10/07, 2:35 PM

Anonymous Norm O.Neill said...

Is there some special signifance to the fact that Mrs.Flynn liked your review?

12/10/07, 3:24 PM

Anonymous sailer salieri said...

Steve, I had the chance to read the article this afternoon at a local borders. You really should read it and post your full thoughts, Steve. It's an excellent piece.

12/10/07, 5:04 PM

Blogger Robert VerBruggen said...

I wrote about the piece myself; it is rife with errors:

http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com/2007/12/malcolm-gladwell-on-iq.html

I think some of them deserve retractions.

12/11/07, 4:28 AM

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