 What do Herrnstein and Murray want you to believe?
Another handpicked group was flown to Washington at the expense of the American Enterprise Institute and given a weekend-long personal briefing on the book's contents by Murray himself (Herrnstein had died very recently), just before publication. Herrnstein and Murray didn't do this, so it wasn't until a full year or more after The Bell Curve was published that the leading experts on its subject had a chance to go through the underlying data with care. The notion that IQ tests are completely useless never prevailed in liberal academia to nearly the extent that Herrnstein and Murray say. Proving The Bell Curve 's thesis would require proving that success increasingly correlates with IQ in areas of life where mental tests are not the explicit gatekeepers.
 be happy with your current status - it's where you're going to stay
 be happy with your current status - it's where you're going to stay  the government should put more money into closing the socio-economic gap  people of all races should be treated equally  if you work hard enough, you can do anything