Example sentences for: murray

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  • Has Charles Murray persuasively reconciled the two conflicting traditions in American conservatism--faith in the free market and faith in tradition?

  • (As an example of where the kind of analysis Herrnstein and Murray didn't do can lead, a new study by Jay Girotto and Paul Peterson of Harvard shows that students who raise their grades and take harder courses can increase their IQ scores by an average of eight points during the first three years of high school.)

  • Throughout, Herrnstein and Murray consistently present themselves as fair- (or even liberal-) minded technicians who have, with great caution, followed the evidence where it leads--which, unfortunately, is to a few unassailable if unpleasant scientific truths that it is their reluctant duty to report.

  • Under the overmechanical assumptions of affirmative-action opponents themselves (and putting aside the racial IQ theories of Murray and some others), blacks would move up the list, and whites would move down.

  • It is a shame that at this stage you would cite The Bell Curve . It has been, by now, thoroughly discredited by a panel of the American Psychological Association and by several studies that reanalyzed the very same National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data that Herrnstein and Murray did--studies by, among others, Chris Winship at Harvard, a group at Brookings, and a group at Berkeley led by myself.


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