?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=How+Heritability+Misleads+about+Race&rft.creator=Block%2C+Ned&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=According+to+The+Bell+Curve%2C+Black+Americans+are+genetically+inferior+to+Whites.+That's+not+the+only+point+in+Richard+Herrnstein+and+Charles+Murray's+book.+They+also+argue+that+there+is+something+called+%22general+intelligence%22+which+is+measured+by+IQ+tests%2C+socially+important%2C+and+60+percent+%22heritable%22+within+whites.+(I'll+explain+heritability+below.)+But+the+claim+about+genetic+inferiority+is+my+target+here.+It+has+been+subject+to+wide-ranging+criticism+since+the+book+was+first+published+last+year.+Those+criticisms%2C+however%2C+have+missed+its+deepest+flaws.+Indeed%2C+the+Herrnstein%2FMurray+argument+depends+on+conceptual+confusions+that+have+been+tacitly+accepted+to+some+degree+by+many+of+the+book's+sharpest+critics.&rft.date=1996-01&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F230%2F1%2F199712003.html&rft.identifier=++Block%2C+Ned++(1996)+How+Heritability+Misleads+about+Race.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F230%2F