The Bell Curve has given genetic determinism new currency, but the science on which it rests is even less persuasive today than it was a century ago.
Howard GardnerDec 10, 2001
Works Discussed in This Essay
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles A. Murray,The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Free Press, 1994
Also Cited
Roger W. Brown and Richard J. Herrnstein, Psychology. Little, Brown, 1975
Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence-More or Less. Prentice Hall, 1990
Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind:The Theory of Multiple Intelligences BasicBooks, 1993
Richard J. Herrnstein, I.Q. in the Meritocracy.Little,Brown, 1973.
