Dissecting The Myths Of Merit And Meritocracy PART-VII

The Bell ‘Curb': Ethnic Academics
The worst episode in history of unravelling the assumed relationship between the nature, nurture and intelligence has been publication of ‘The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life' authored by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray and published in 1994. 7 This controversial project , by using empirical statistical analysis to defend racial and class objectives demonstrated that African-Americans have comparatively less measured intelligence than their Asian and White peers; low intelligence is related to criminal activities and interestingly the police records in America are highly biased towards non-whites specially African –Americans. Cornel West, an American philosopher, in his famous ‘Race Matters' argued if Blacks are just 9% of American population why 50% prisoners are Blacks in America? And this can be learnt easily by understanding the double meaning embedded in sensational study named The Bell Curve. At one hand, it establishes that African-Americans are people of low intelligence and that's why they are more prone to indulge in criminal activities; given their genetic dispositions; on other hand suggesting that public expenditure on welfare and affirmative action like activities is sheer waste of money and energies-a highly irrational and illogical activity, because it will not alleviate them. The author duo referred, felt intelligence was a single trait of mind, a numerically fixed quotient, a globally arranged system of graded individuals, genetically grounded and non-elastic characteristic. But a scrutiny of this highly sensational project brought certain startling facts of non-academic and scientific nature. One of the author associated with the project has previous history of being racially-inclined and has got published a paper of equally malicious nature in Atlantic Magazine, without substantial statistical proofs, some twenty years back . The duo was offered a fund of 100 million dollars by the conservative Bradley Foundation with complicit track of providing financial funds to organisations and bodies aimed at production of studies and researches which sought to aggravate racial and class distinctions and peculiarities , some of the beneficiaries being think tanks like American Enterprise and Heritage Foundation etc. Any rational being can decide that the conspiracy, academic dishonesty and prejudice inherent in the study invalidate itself as well as its purported genetic upshot.

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