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  Index

  abolitionism, 408, 422–23

  Account of the Regular Gradation in Man (White), 73

  Acton, Lord, 412

  Agassiz, Louis, 23, 52, 74–83, 102, 142, 144, 398

  doctrine of human unity of, 76, 77–78

  miscegenation and, 76, 80–81

  Morton and, 82–83, 84

  as taxonomic splitter, 76

  American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 53, 55

  Anglo-Saxons, brain size of, 99, 101

  animals, criminality and, 159–60

  Année psychologique, L’(Binet), 176

  Annotated Dracula (Wolf), 152n Army Apha, 207, 224, 226, 229–30, 232–34, 256

  Army Beta, 224, 226, 229–30, 232–34, 256

  army mental tests, 26, 46, 60, 222–63

  Brigham and, 229, 232–33, 254–60, 262–63

  content of, 229–30

  critique of, 229–52

  dubious procedures in, 234–44


  environmental correlations bypassed in, 247–52

  environmental influence and, 228

  immigration policy and, 227, 233–34, 254–63

  implications for democracy in, 252–54

  inadequate conditions of, 231–34

  major impact of, 225

  official reactions to, 224–25

  political impact of data from, 252–63

  results of, 225–29

  Spearman’s g and, 300–301

  summary statistics finagled in, 244–52

  three types of, 224

  as Yerkes’s “big idea,” 223–24

  atavism, criminality and, 151–73

  Atlantic Monthly, 30, 35, 368

  Australian aborigines, African blacks compared to, 118–19

  autism, 32

  Bachman, John, 102

  Backward Child, The (Burt), 309–11

  Bean, Robert Bennett, 59, 109–14, 122, 129

  corpus callosum and, 109

  Negro traits as seen by, 111–12

  beavers, supposed self-castration of, 393

  Bell Curve, The (Herrnstein and Murray), 30, 31–32, 33, 34, 36, 43, 48–49, 50, 367–90, 397

  argument in, 37–38, 367–70, 371–76

  content of, 370–71, 374–76

  custodial state recommended in, 377

  disingenuousness of, 37–38, 370–78, 382

  factor analysis and, 372–76

  historical roots of, 379–90

  omissions and confusions in, 371, 372–74

  premises of, 368, 384–85

  program of, 367, 370–71, 376–78

  publicity given to, 31, 370

  reviewers of, 371, 372, 373

  social Darwinism in, 367–70

  Spearman’s g and, 295, 302n, 325n 347–350

  bell curves, 33

  bimodal distribution, 242–44

  Binet, Alfred, 23, 29, 40, 44, 49, 176–88, 225, 261, 267, 269, 279, 308n, 368, 385–89

  Broca and, 176, 177

  caveats on testing asserted by, 185, 209

  criterion of IQ established by, 178–84

  empirical focus of, 179, 180

  Goddard and, 189, 202, 205

  motives of, 180–84

  scale of, 178–80, 189

  Spearman and, 293–94

  Terman and, 206, 209

  unconscious bias studied by, 177–78

  biogeography, 75–82

 

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