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wedlockinformation has become the single mostbirths,crime,and many other social problems.important element of success,no matter howThough we stubbornly deny it,these socialyou measure it:financial security,power,orproblems correlate to a significant degree withstatus.Those who work by manipulatingintelligence.ideas and abstractions are the leaders and ben-Only by facing up to this undeniable newseficiaries of our society.In such an era,highcan we begin to accurately assess the nationsintelligence is an increasingly precious rawproblems and make realistic plans for address-material for success.But despite decades ofing them.That means in the first instancefashionable denial,the overriding and insis-accepting that there are great differences intent truth about intellectual ability is that it isintelligence between groups of people,as wellendowed unequally,for reasons that govern-as among individuals in any group.Just asment policies can do little to change.important,it also means learning that theseThe major purpose of The Bell Curve is togroup differences do not justify prejudicialreveal the dramatic transformation that isassumptions about any member of a givencurrently in process in American society—agroup whose intelligence and potential may,inprocess that has created a new kind of classfact,be anywhere under the bell curve of intel-structure led by a “cognitive elite,”itself aligence from the dullest to the most brilliant.result of concentration and self-selection inBut it does mean we must have the courage tothose social pools well endowed with cognitiverevise what we can talk about in public.Thisabilities.This transformation,sadly,has itsbook is the first important step toward thatopposite:the perpetuation of a class of peopledifficult but necessary goal.deficient in these endowments and abilities,and increasingly doomed to labor,if they findwork at all,outside the information economy.In a book that is certain to ignite an explosiveRICHARD J.HERRNSTEIN received hiscontroversy,Herrnstein and Murray break newPh.D.in psychology at Harvard where he hasground in exploring the ways that low intelli-taught since I958 and now holds the Edgargence,independent of social,economic,or ethnicPierce Chair in Psychology.background lies at the root of many of our socialproblems.The authors also demonstrate theCHARLES MURRAY,a graduate of Harvardtruth of another taboo fact:that intelligence lev-who received his Ph.D.in Political Scienceels differ among ethnic groups.This finding isfrom MIT,is the author of Losing Ground:already well-known and widely discussed amongAmerican Social Policy 1950-1980.He is cur-psychometricians and other scholars.In The Bellrently a Bradley Fellow at the AmericanCurve,Herrnstein and Murray open this body ofEnterprise Institute.scholarship to the general public.  \nOur public policy refuses to acknowledge theproofs of human difference,or to deal with itsconsequences.With relentless and unassailablethoroughness,Herrnstein and Murray for theTHE FREE PRESSfirst time show that for a wide range ofintractable social problems,the decisive correla-Printed in the U.S.A.◎I994 Simon &Schuster Inc.tion is between a high incidence of the problemDistributed by Simon &Schuster Inc.and the low intelligence of those who sufferjacket design OREM Studio,Inc.from it:this holds for school dropouts,unem-  \nTHE BELL CURVE  \nIntelligence and Class Structurein American Life  \nRICHARD J.HERRNSTEINCHARLES MURRAY  \nForJULIA,MAX,JAMES,NARISARA,SARAWAN,ANNA,AND BENNETTWe aurote with your world in our thoughts  \nCopyright◎1994by RichardJ.Herrnstein and Charles Murray  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,elecronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by any information stor.age and retrie","cbCairTzR2avigfp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairTzR2avigfp","pdf",41320875,439,"English","# A Note to the Reader\n# Preface\n# Acknowledgments\n# Introduction\n# Part I. The Emergence of a Cognitive Elite\n## 1 Cognitive Class and Education, 1900-1990\n## 2 Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation\n## 3 The Economic Pressure to Partition\n## 4 Steeper Ladders, Narrower Gates\n# Part I. Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior\n## 5 Poverty\n## 6 Schooling\n## 7 Unemployment, Idleness, and Injury\n## 8 Family Matters\n## 9 Welfare Dependency\n## 10 Parenting\n## 11 Crime\n## 12 Civility and Citizenship\n# Part III. 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