Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve (Silver Burdett Professional Publications) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387982345 ISBN 13: 9780387982342

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1997

Synopsis

An examination of the relationship between intelligence, genes and success. It is divided into three parts, which consider: the genetics-intelligence link; intelligence and the measurement of IQ; and intelligence and success.

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The relationship between cognitive ability and wages
In chapter 8 of Intelligence, Genes, and Success, my coauthors and I test the claims about cognitive ability and wages made by the authors of The Bell Curve. We show that measured cognitive ability is correlated with wages but explains little of the variance in wages across individuals and time. We also present evidence that cognitive ability is unequally rewarded in the labor market for people of different ethnicity and gender, which is inconsistent with the claim of The Bell Curve that the U.S. labor market is meritocratic.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387982345
• ISBN 13: 9780387982342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Devlin Bernie, Fienberg Stephen E., Resnick Daniel P., Roeder Kathryn