Example sentences for: herrnstein

How can you use “herrnstein” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Though they piously claim not to be doing so, Herrnstein and Murray leave readers with the distinct impression that IQ is the cause of economic success and failure, and that genetic difference explains the black-white IQ gap.

  • The final straw was surely the grotesque affair of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life . This book came close to claiming that, given your genes, it makes no difference to your economic success whether you grew up in Scarsdale or the South Bronx.

  • (Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray had previously reported similar findings in their best-selling book The Bell Curve .) To explain those skill differentials, one can try pointing either to training or heredity.

  • ( shows how Herrnstein and Murray have made the convergence in black-white IQ scores, which they claim to find "encouraging," look smaller than it actually is.)

  • What Herrnstein and Murray used to measure IQ is actually a measure of education as well as intelligence.


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