For whom the bell curve really tolls: a tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies

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Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein's 'The Bell Curve' is riddled with errors in statistical methods and data interpretation. The worst mistakes in the book concern the pair's treatment of research on the impact of early education on disadvantaged children's subsequent educational achievement.

Social aspects, Intelligence (Psychology), Educational psychology, Early childhood education, Intelligence levels

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Scientist, administrator, role model

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National Science Foundation Dir Walter E. Massey has become successful because of a love of arithmetic and the influence of excellent teachers. Massey believes that women and minorities are discouraged from entering the field of science.

Management, Officials and employees, Biography, United States. National Science Foundation, Massey, Walter E.

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Relative hunger

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Research on cannibalistic creatures supports the theory of kin selection. This theory states that natural selection favors genes that cause animals to act more favorably toward their relatives than they do toward other animals.

Kin selection (Evolution), Kin selection (Natural selection), Cannibalism (Animals), Animal cannibalism

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