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Common knowledge Michael Barone National Review, Dec 5, 1994 v46 n23 p32(2)
P erhaps because I'm congenitally optimistic, I think The Bell Curve's message is already widely
understood, by the American people if not by the elite. Ordinary citizens know that some people are in significant ways more intelligent than
others, that only a relative few are extremely bright or extremely dull, and that intelligence bunches up at the center. They know that
intelligence is not randomly distributed among members of different identifiable racial and ethnic groups. These are lessons that are taught
in everyday life, and you have to undergo a pretty sophisticated indoctrination and enlist in a tightly disciplined ideological army to believe
otherwise.
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