Re: Race: real or imagined?

Below are the URLs and citations for a number of sources providing
critiques and reviews of the methodology of the _Bell Curve_.  Not all of
them are necessarily unsupportive of the analysis; I submit them simply for
the purposes of informing the list.

"The Bell Curve Workbook."  Available online at 
http://webusers.anet-stl.com/~civil/bellcurveillustration2.html
(This is a set of links to a variety of sources, both favorable and
unfavorable, concerning the Bell Curve (there does seem to be a tilt toward
more favorable materials, though).  The site has been created by something
called the American Civil Rights Review, whose political leanings I can't
quite figure out immediately).  

King, Loren.  "Intelligence and Equality in a Just Society:  The Ambiguity
and Irrelevance of Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve."  Spring 1998 (last
update February 23, 1999).  Available online at 
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/l/k/lking/www/writing/iq.html

Krenz, Claudia.  "Anatomy of an Analysis."  Last update July 1999.
Available online at  http://www.srv.net/~msdata/bell.html 
(Claudia Krenz is a psychometrician who has held a variety of faculty and
staff positions, including faculty positions at the University of
Washington, Seattle; Cornell University; Pacific Lutheran University in
Tacoma, WA; the University of Montana; and Idaho State University.  This is
a very well-designed and detailed site.  Krenz reanalyzes the data used in
_The Bell Curve_, and does not find support for the conclusions of
Herrnstein and Murray).

Lemann, Nicholas.  "The Bell Curve Flattened."  _Slate Magazine_, Dec. 8,
1999. Available online at
http://www.slate.com/Features/BellCurve/BellCurve.asp

Miele, Frank.  "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls."  _Skeptic Magazine_, 3, no.
2 (1995).  Available online at
http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.miele-murray-interview.html
(This is an interview with Murray himself touching upon some of the
methodological questions concerning _The Bell Curve_).

Rawat, Rajiv.  "The Return of Determinism? The Pseudoscience of the Bell
Curve." N.D. Available online at
http://ice.englib.cornell.edu/sciTech/u95/bell.html
(Rajiv Rawat was an Ecology & Evolutionary Biology major at the time of the
writing of this undated article).

"Special Section:  Race and Intelligence."  _Skeptic Magazine_, 3, no. 3
(1995).  
(One component of this special section, an interview with psychometrician
Robert Sternberg critical of the _Bell Curve_, is available online at
http://www.skeptic.com/03.3.fm-sternberg-interview.html)

"Teacher resources for 'The Bell Curve' debate."  Available online at
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/bellres.html
(This site was prepared by Project Interactivate, a project aimed at
creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of courseware for use
in middle-school mathematics programs.  It is funded, in part, by the
Office of Dependent Education of the Department of Defense Education
Activity (DoDEA) through the Presidential Technology Initiative).


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