| 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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