![]() ![]() Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. In Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd edn. Moments of a Distribution: Mean, Variance, Skewness, and So Forth. Press W.H., Flannery B.P., Teukolsky S.A., Vetterling W.T. Journal of The American Statistical Association 40 Archives of Psychology 140ĪrticleTitleFor whom the bell curve tollsĪrticleTitleQuantitative Science and the definition of measurement in psychologyĪrticleTitleThe meaning of kurtosis: Darlington reexamined A technique for the measurement of attitudes. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, pp.100–101ĪrticleTitleThe bell curve: Some statistical concernsĪrticleTitleNotes on the use of the normal distribution in psychometrics Skewness, in Mathematics of Statistics, Pt.1, 3rd edn. The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Įmotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQĪrticleTitleThe pseudoscience of psychometry and the bell curve Humanity and Society 5, 14–31 reprinted in 1986 in: Readings in Humanist Sociology, General Hall adapted and condensed by Goertzel T. The myth of the normal curve: A theoretical critique and examination of its role in teaching and research. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, And The Future Of Americaįrames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical TablesĪrticleTitleHow can the bell curve be taken seriously?Īlberta Journal of Educational Research 41ĪrticleTitleFor whom “The Bell” tolls: Why the bell curve is important for school psychologistsĪrticleTitleSome effects of non-normal distribution shape on the magnitude of the Pearson product moment correlation coefficientĪrticleTitleOn race and intelligence: A commentary on affirmative action, the evolution of intelligence, the regression analyses in The Bell Curve, and Jensen’s two-level theory The article discusses the role of the normal distribution in psychological research and practice and shows how it can be dangerous to treat the bell curve as a God or an Idol. In the second (myth) we can have two kinds of attitudes: one attitude is typical of those researchers who search for normality in all their data and variables, just as Parsifal used to search for the Holy Graal (we call this “the Parsifal attitude”) the other is typical of those researchers who give normality for granted and act as if it were a Platonic Idea (we call this “the Plato attitude”). In the first case (reality) we can assist to appropriate applications of a real useful statistical concept. ![]() The point is that, during the 20th century, the bell curve has assumed a more and more important role in psychological research and practice and have become both a reality and a myth. The first is so attractive that the second refers to it to give more credibility to its questionable theories on intelligence. The expression “the bell curve” designs both a kind of statistical distribution and the title of a famous and controversial book by Herrnstein and Murray. ![]()
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