
The Bell Curve
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
A Note to the Reader
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I.
THE EMERGENCE OF A COGNITIVE ELITE
1 Cognitive Class and Education, 1900-1990
2 Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation
3 The Economic Pressure to Partition
4 Steeper Ladders, Narrower Gates
PART II.
COGNITIVE CLASSES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
5 Poverty
6 Schooling
7 Unemployment, Idleness, and Injury
8 Family Matters
9 Welfare Dependency
10 Parenting
11 Crime
12 Civility and Citizenship
PART III.
THE NATIONAL CONTEXT
13 Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability
14 Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ
15 The Demography of Intelligence
16 Social Behavior and the Prevalence of Low Cognitive Ability
PART IV.
LIVING TOGETHER
17 Raising Cognitive Ability
18 The Leveling of American Education
19 Affirmative Action in Higher Education
20 Affirmative Action in the Workplace
21 The Way We Are Headed
22 A Place for Everyone
Afterworld
APPENDIXES
1 Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics
2 Technical Issues Regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
3 Technical Issues Regarding the Armed Forces Qualification Test as a Measure of IQ
4 Regression Analyses (rom Part II
5 Supplemental Material for Chapter 13
6 Regression Analyses from Chapter 14
7 The Evolution of Affirmative Action in the Workplace
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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