In Their 1994 Book the Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class

question 93

True/False

In their 1994 book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, Herrnstein and Murray proved that the lower intelligence test scores of African Americans as compared to White Americans, were, in large part, caused by genetics.

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