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Only a bunch of metaphors can describe the furor
[[Image:Bellcurve.jpg|right|thumb|Black IQ scores show a 15 to 18 point gap]]
[[Image:Bellcurve.jpg|right|thumb|Black IQ scores show a 15 to 18 point gap]]
'''''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life''''' is a 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the relationship between [[intelligence]] and success in [[America (USA)|America]]n life. <ref> Human Intelligence: "The Bell Curve" [http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/bellcurve.shtml Indiana University] Accessed June 27 2007</ref> Critics attacked the authors relentlessly over the book's discussion of [[race]] and intelligence.
'''''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life''''' is a 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the relationship between [[intelligence]] and success in [[America (USA)|America]]n life. <ref> Human Intelligence: "The Bell Curve" [http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/bellcurve.shtml Indiana University] Accessed June 27 2007</ref> Critics attacked the authors relentlessly over the book's discussion of [[race]] and intelligence.
The book makes two controversial points:
#That in America intelligent people are more successful than average people, and that unintelligent people make more trouble than average people. That is, he correlates intelligence with well-being
#That some ethnic groups have consistently scored lower on intelligence tests, and that [[cultural bias]] in the tests fails to explain this
The book thus deals with two taboos at once: the authors are simultaneously rocking the boat and upsetting the apple cart. Either point by itself is an [[elephant in the livingroom]]. Tackling both at once got the authors into a lot of hot water.
==Quotations about the book==
[[Milton Friedman]] said:
[[Milton Friedman]] said: