Herrnstein and Charles Murray because, while I don't agree with what the authors claim, there are clear truths present in this book. The authors argue that there are differences in the intelligence levels of ethnic groups, “Another Gee taboo is that intelligence levels differ between ethnic groups. This is already well known and widely discussed among psychometricians and other scholars” (Herrnstein & Murray 15). This is not due to some biological reason, but rather because resources and opportunities are not allocated equally between ethnic groups. However, racist policies have been put in place with ideas like eugenics and other mentalities of biological superiority. People who believe someone is biologically less intelligent will have little motivation to expend resources on them. In fact, it seems like a waste of time and money to them. No one would ever admit that these ideas persist today, but when you examine the discrepancies in the quality of education given to the rich versus that of the poor it becomes apparent. Especially when the demographic of people who hold the majority of the wealth is white. However, not everything that Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray say can be discounted. Indeed, they point out that measures of intelligence are limited: “Measures of intelligence have reliable statistical relationships with important social phenomena, but they are a limited tool for deciding what to do with a given individual” (Herrnstein & Murray 27). They repeat this many times, while trying to clarify their research, their data is very outdated and as a result the statistics are distorted. Many people have used books like The Bell Curve, Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life to justify their ideas and