Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Reviews and Arguments | p. 3 |
Mismeasure by Any Measure | p. 3 |
Apocalypse Now? | p. 14 |
Blacktop Basketball and The Bell Curve | p. 30 |
The Median Is the Message | p. 44 |
Clever Arguments, Atrocious Science | p. 53 |
Skin-Deep Science | p. 57 |
Scholarly Brinkmanship | p. 61 |
Innumeracy | p. 73 |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics | p. 81 |
Sermon as Science | p. 106 |
Dangerous, but Important | p. 110 |
A Dystopian Fable | p. 115 |
The Heart of the Matter | p. 119 |
Sources and Polemics | p. 125 |
Tainted Sources | p. 125 |
The Curious Laird of Nigg | p. 140 |
Inside the Pioneer Fund | p. 144 |
Professors of Hate | p. 162 |
The Rushton File | p. 179 |
Theories of East Asian Superiority | p. 201 |
Ireland's "Low" IQ: A Critique | p. 222 |
Opinions and Testimonies | p. 235 |
A Long Tradition | p. 235 |
The Truth about Asian Americans | p. 238 |
For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls | p. 241 |
A Triumph of Packaging | p. 246 |
Throwing a Curve | p. 249 |
Born to Lose | p. 252 |
Branded | p. 255 |
Timing Is Everything | p. 258 |
Intellectual Brown Shirts | p. 263 |
Breaking Ranks | p. 269 |
Defining Race | p. 273 |
Too Clever by Half | p. 276 |
Correlation as Causation | p. 280 |
Blood Simple | p. 283 |
Resurgent Racism | p. 285 |
So What! | p. 287 |
The Limits of IQ | p. 290 |
The IQ Cult | p. 293 |
A Large and Enduring Market | p. 296 |
Lessons of The Bell Curve | p. 299 |
Right Is Right | p. 302 |
Straightening Out The Bell Curve | p. 305 |
On Not Getting It | p. 314 |
Minority Report | p. 316 |
Get Smart | p. 319 |
Ethnicity, Genetics, and Cuteness | p. 322 |
Conservative Commentary and Critique | p. 325 |
Legacy of Racism | p. 325 |
Living with Inequality | p. 331 |
Paroxysms of Denial | p. 335 |
Is Intelligence Fixed? | p. 338 |
Methodological Fetishism | p. 342 |
Dispirited | p. 346 |
The Multicultural Trap | p. 351 |
Back to the Future | p. 354 |
A Moral Imperative | p. 358 |
Restoration Man | p. 364 |
The Press Speaks Out | p. 375 |
The Bellicose Curve | p. 375 |
A High Ignorance Quotient | p. 377 |
Dead-End Curve | p. 379 |
What's at Stake | p. 381 |
The Bell Curve Agenda | p. 383 |
IQ and Social Justice | p. 386 |
IQ Is Not Destiny | p. 389 |
Origins and Implications | p. 393 |
Hereditary Talent and Character (1865) | p. 393 |
On Breeding Good Stock (1903) | p. 410 |
Genius, Fame, and Race (1897) | p. 417 |
The Negro (1911) | p. 438 |
Testing America's Intelligence | p. 441 |
Eugenics Comes to America | p. 441 |
The Pioneers of IQ Testing | p. 476 |
Black Intellectuals on IQ Tests | p. 510 |
The Measurement of Intelligence (1916) | p. 542 |
The Rising Tide of Color (1920) | p. 553 |
The Mental Age of Americans (1922) | p. 561 |
A Future for the Tests (1922) | p. 566 |
A Study of American Intelligence (1923) | p. 571 |
What the Army "Intelligence" Tests Measured (1924) | p. 583 |
The Return of the Repressed | p. 599 |
IQ | p. 599 |
The Differences Are Real | p. 617 |
Differences Are Not Deficits | p. 630 |
Jensen and Educational Differences | p. 640 |
Science or Superstition? | p. 653 |
Further Reading | p. 679 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 683 |
Index | p. 689 |
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