THE RELATIVITY OF GENOTYPES AND PHENOTYPES

This article asserts that The Bell Curve is an attempt to influence an d control public discourse about public policy and inequality. This at tempt is discussed by highlighting four of the book's flaws: (a) a con ceptual flaw of classifying intelligence as a group phenomenon, (b) an analytical flaw of neglecting to disaggregate intelligence into its s everal component parts, (c) a methodological flaw of not presenting a genuine comparative analysis, and (d) a judgmental flaw of including f indings that fail to recognize intelligence as having both genotypic a nd phenotypic manifestations