The Bell Curve

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Section time codes:
6:15 Intelligence
17:18 The Bell Curve
30:03 General Intelligence
57:21 IQ Tests
1:41:15 IQ vs Environment
2:02:34 Politics

Content warning: discussion of racism, ableism, misogyny, Nazi ideology

Extra special thanks to Nate Frost from Portland State University and Thea for their help sourcing studies.

Also extra special thanks to Olive & Kav P for all their script editing help:

https://twitter.com/coherentstates
https://twitter.com/RealKav_P

Books:

The Bell Curve (1994)
The Mismeasure of Man (1981)
Inequality by Design (1996)
Intelligence, Genes & Success (1997)
The Bell Curve Debate (1995)
The Nazi Connection (1994)

Articles & Studies:

Lewis M. Terman: The Uses of Intelligence Tests (1916)
Ned Block: How Heritability Misleads about Race (1996)
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally: Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer (2019)
Zack Z. Cernovsky: On the Similarities of American Blacks and Whites: A Reply to J. P. Rushton (1995)
Richard Lynn: Race differences in intelligence: A global perspective (1991)
Byrnes, Rita M., Library of Congress. Federal Research Division: South Africa : a country study (1997)
Mallory Wober: The meaning and stability of Raven’s Matrices test among Africans (1969)
D. H. Crawford-Nutt: Are Black scores on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices an artifact of test presentation? (1976)
John C. Raven: Standardization of progressive matrices (1938)
K. Owen: Test and Item Bias: The Suitability of the Junior Aptitude Tests as a Common Test Battery for White, Indian and Black Pupils in Standard 7 (1989)
K. Owen: The suitability of Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for various groups in South Africa (1992)
Fred Zindi: Towards the Development of African Psychometric Tests (2013)

Links:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/27/ai-facial-recognition-used-first-time-job-interviews-uk-find/
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html
https://www.loc.gov/item/96048983/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/linda-gottfredson
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pioneer-fund
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jean-philippe-rushton

Picture credit (dancers): Raina Peterson & Govind Pillai; (photographer) Anandh Bala

At 17:56 I say 'IQ' instead of 'g'. Whoops!

Note about Zimbabwe: Rhodesia’s minority-rule government issued a declaration of independence in 1965, but Zimbabwe did not gain recognised independence until 1980.

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