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IQ and economic success

CHARLES MURRAY

IN The Bell Curve, the late Richard J. Herrnstein and I described an emerging class society in which the intellectually blessed become ever more rich and powerful and the intellectually deficient find it harder and harder to cope. We proposed that this new form of class division is substantially (though by no means completely) independent of one’s socioeconomic background.

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