"Murray and Herrnstein argue that intelligence, as measured by an IQ score, is a crucial determinant of success in modern society. They also argue that a person's intelligence is substantially determined by genetics, leading to the establishment of "cognitive elites" as intelligent people select one another for reproduction. Most controversially, Herrnstein and Murray entertain the possibility that socioeconomic and educational differences among racial groups could be explained by differences in their IQ scores,"
"He emailed me some time after I'd helped stoke an online furor about his insistent defense of The Bell Curve's main points, which he'd recently reiterated on a popular podcast and which I, along with two other psychologists and intelligence researchers, had denounced in Vox. I took the bet because I was confident I would win."
""we will understand IQ genetically. I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025-there will still be blanks, but we'll know basically what's going on." And he proposed that, in seven years, he'd sit through a lecture I gave on the topic: "Who Was More Right?""
A wager asserted that the genetic basis of IQ would be largely understood by 2025. The Bell Curve claims that IQ, measured by test scores, is a crucial determinant of success and is substantially heritable, producing 'cognitive elites' via assortative mating. The book raises the possibility that socioeconomic and educational differences among racial groups could be partly explained by genetic differences in IQ. A prediction that genetics would clarify IQ by 2025 framed a public wager. By 2025 the wagerer declares that genetic and brain mechanisms causing intelligence differences are not understood, and DNA findings have not produced clear causal explanations.
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