On 15/01/2019 02:33, Jim H wrote:
"The Bell Curve" is the title of a book.


Of course I know that. That is why I created the post in the first
place to high-light how much the society has changed or NOT changed
since the mass migration began.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299

It seems people are more politically correct these days than they were
in the 80's and 90s. Read the reviews:

Milton Friedman This brilliant, original, objective, and lucidly
written book will force you to rethink your biases and prejudices
about the role that individual difference in intelligence plays in our
economy, our policy, and our society.

Michael Novak /National Review/ Our intellectual landscape has been
disrupted by the equivalent of an earthquake.

David Brooks /The Wall Street Journal/ Has already kicked up more
reaction than any social?science book this decade.

Peter Brimelow /Forbes/ Long-awaited...massive, meticulous, minutely
detailed, clear. Like Darwin's /Origin of Species/ -- the intellectual
event with which it is being seriously compared -- /The Bell Curve/
offers a new synthesis of research...and a hypothesis of far-reaching
explanatory power.

Prof. Thomas J. Bouchard /Contemporary Psychology/ [The authors] have
been cast as racists and elitists and /The Bell Curve/ has been
dismissed as pseudoscience....The book's message cannot be dismissed
so easily. Herrnstein and Murray have written one of the most
provocative social science books published in many years....This is a
superbly written and exceedingly well documented book.

Christopher Caldwell /American Spectator The Bell Curve/ is a
comprehensive treatment of its subject, never mean-spirited or
gloating. It gives a fair hearing to those who dissent scientifically
from its propositions -- in fact, it bends over backward to be
fair....Among the dozens of hostile articles that have thus far
appeared, none has successfully refuted any of its science.

Prof. Eugene D. Genovese /National Review/ Richard Herrnstein and
Charles Murray might not feel at home with Daniel Patrick Moynihan and
Lani Guinier, but they should....They have all [made] brave attempts
to force a national debate on urgent matters that will not go away.
And they have met the same fate. Once again, academia and the mass
media are straining every muscle to suppress debate.

Chester E. Finn, Jr. /Commentary The Bell Curve's/ implications will
be as profound for the beginning of the new century as Michael
Harrington's discovery of "the other America" was for the final part
of the old. Richard Herrnstein's bequest to us is a work of great
value. Charles Murray's contribution goes on.

Malcolme W. Browne /The New York Times Book Review/ Mr. Murray and Mr.
Herrnstein write that "for the last 30 years, the concept of
intelligence has been a pariah in the world of ideas," and that the
time has come to rehabilitate rational discourse on the subject. It is
hard to imagine a democratic society doing otherwise.

Prof. Earl Hunt /American Scientist/ The first reactions to /The Bell
Curve/ were expressions of public outrage. In the second round of
reaction, some commentators suggested that Herrnstein and Murray were
merely bringing up facts that were well known in the scientific
community, but perhaps best not discussed in public. A Papua New
Guinea language has a term for this, /Mokita./ It means "truth that we
all know, but agree not to talk about." ...There are fascinating
questions here for those interested in the interactions between
sociology, economics, anthropology and cognitive science. We do not
have the answers yet. We may need them soon, for policy makers who
rely on /Mokita/ are flying blind.


Academics need to be protected if we want to advance our knowledge. They
should be allowed to say or write anything within the confines of
academic research. At present they are fired; Even holocaust deniers
should be allowed to espouse their theories and debated. i know this is
not very popular to say but that is what we should aim as far as
possible. If we don't then the Chinese will do so and then we would all
be slaves of them. They will have advanced science and technology and
we would all be struggling with Windows 10 updates!!.



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