The Bell Curve: An Essay Review by John C. Culbertson

“…Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is such a book. …”
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The Bell Curve: Corrected for Skew by Haggai Kupermintz

“…This commentary documents serious pitfalls in the statistical analyses and the interpretation of empirical evidence presented in The Bell Curve. Most importantly, the role of education is re-evaluated and it is shown how, by neglecting it, The Bell Curve grossly overstates the case for IQ as a dominant determinant of social success. …”
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Effective secondary teaching : going beyond the bell curve / by 253980 Quina, James

The Bell Curve Revisited: Testing Controversial Hypotheses with Molecular Genetic Data by Dalton Conley, Benjamin Domingue

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Students’ Conceptions of Bell Curve Grading Fairness in Relation to Goal Orientation and Motivation by Lynette TAN Yuen Ling, Brenda Yuen, Wee Ling LOO, Christiaan Prinsloo, Mark Gan

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Differentiating tower from bell curves in smooth continuous uroflowmetry curves of healthy adolescents by Stephen Shei-Dei Yang, Shang-Jen Chang

“…Adolescents with uroflow curves classified as tower though F-Y index and A_Qmax were associated with higher urgency score than those with bell curves. However, adolescents with the tower curves defined by interpreters did not have higher urgency scores. …”
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Review of The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve by Michael E. Staub by Chelsea D. Chamberlain

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Inquiry Into The Ethnic Superiority Thesis Of The Bell Curve : A Cognitive Comparative Study Of Malay And Chinese In USM by Zulkernain, Mohd Noordinie

“…This study is based on the probe into ethnic intelligence superiority thesis by Herrnstein and Murray (1994) in "The Bell Curve" book. The book suggested that certain ethnic groups were superior intellectually than another due to genetics and this is not amenable to intervention. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM IN THE BRUNEI PUBLIC SECTOR: INITIAL RESPONSES by LI LI PANG, MOHAMAD SHAH RIZAL AMIR HJ MOHIDDIN, MUHAMMAD AMIRUDDIN ISMAIL

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Mathematical model of COVID-19 spread in Turkey and South Africa: theory, methods, and applications by Abdon Atangana, Seda İğret Araz

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Crystal Fractionation by Crystal‐Driven Convection by Cansu Culha, Jenny Suckale, Tobias Keller, Zhipeng Qin

“…The compositional abundances of volcanic systems show a bell curve distribution suggesting that the process has variable efficiencies. …”
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The relation between cognitive ability and psychological readiness of semi-skilled employees in the South African mining industry by M. L. Watkins, A. Elliot

“…The question arose whether cognitive tests are able to predict psychological readiness to perform as implicated by Hemstein and Murray's (1994) work on the "Bell Curve". In this study, no meaningful relation between cognitive ability and psychological readiness was found. …”
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Double Whammy – How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent by Budzier, A, Flyvbjerg, B

“…Our results show that the CDF changes at two tipping points – the first one transforms an exponential function into a Gaussian bell curve. The second tipping point transforms the bell curve into a power law distribution with the power of 2. …”

Social Science Research Findings and Educational Policy Dilemmas by Steven I. Miller, Marcel Fredericks

“…The distinctions are made using Glymour's critique of the Bell Curve. An argument is made that (1) social science models and research findings are largely irrelevant to the actual concerns of policy makers and (2) what is relevant, but overlooked by Glymour, is how ideological factors mediate the process. …”
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Providing the Optimal Production Path from Oil Fields Considering Economic, Technical, and Environmental Dimensions by samaneh khaksarastaneh, Teymor Mohammadi, Hamid Amadeh

“…The results of the bell curve study confirmed the production during the life of the field. …”
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Why double dissociations don't mean much by Juola, P, Plunkett, K

“…We present a connectionist model that demonstrates apparent double dissociations within a single-route, single-mechanism network and argue that these apparent dissociations are simply the expected tails of a standard bell curve describing network performance. We conclude that within a connectionist model, the appearance of double dissociations may not be evidence for functional or mechanistic separation, and that similar caveats apply to the interpretation of double dissociations in human cognitive behaviour.…”

Falling Short: Adverse Events Related to Patient Height by Caitlyn Allen, Neal Wiggermann

“…And what about those on the outer tails of the bell curve of population distribution?Almost 1 million (909,222) adults in the United States are at least 6'4", more than the entire population of South Dakota (884,659). …”
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Falling Short: Adverse Events Related to Patient Height by Caitlyn Allen, Neal Wiggermann

“…And what about those on the outer tails of the bell curve of population distribution? Almost 1 million (909,222) adults in the United States are at least 6'4", more than the entire population of South Dakota (884,659). …”
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Development and evaluation of patient-centred polygenic risk score reports for glaucoma screening by Georgina L Hollitt, Mark M Hassall, Owen M Siggs, Jamie E Craig, Emmanuelle Souzeau

“…We designed three versions of the report to illustrate risk using a pictograph, a pie chart and a bell curve. We then conducted semi-structured interviews to assess preference of visual risk communication aids, understanding of risk, content, format and structure of the reports. …”
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Gaming the Classroom: The Transformative Experience of Redesigning the Delivery of a Political Science Class by Mikael Hellstrom

“…It also finds that there might be some institutional barriers to the adoption of these tools, primarily associated with the institutionalization of the bell curve as a guideline for the distribution of student grades. …”
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