Charles Murray | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Charles_Murray_Speaking_at_FreedomFest.jpeg) Murray in 2013 | |
| Born | Charles Alan Murray January 8, 1943 Newton, Iowa, U.S. |
| Spouses | Suchart Dej-Udom
(m. 1966; div. 1980)Catherine Bly Cox (m. 1983) |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | Irving Kristol Award (2009) Kistler Prize (2011) |
| Scholarly background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Investment and Tithing in Thai Villages: A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucian Pye |
| Scholarly work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| School or tradition | Right-libertarianism |
| Institutions | American Institutes for Research Manhattan Institute for Policy Research American Enterprise Institute |
| Main interests | Race and intelligence Social welfare policy |
| Notable works | Losing Ground (1984) The Bell Curve (1994) Coming Apart (2012) |
Charles Alan Murray (/ˈmɜːri/; born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.[1]
Murray's work is highly controversial.[2][3][4][5][6] His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (1984) discussed the American welfare system. In the book The Bell Curve (1994), he and co-author Richard Herrnstein argue that in 20th-century American society, intelligence became a better predictor than parental socioeconomic status or education level of many individual outcomes, including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely counterproductive. The Bell Curve also claims that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial and ethnic groups are at least partly genetic in origin, a view that is now considered discredited by mainstream science.[7][8][9][10]
- ^ "Charles Murray AEI Scholar". American Enterprise Institute website. American Enterprise Institute. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- ^ Martin, Michel (January 7, 2018). "Controversial Social Scientist Charles Murray Retires". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Siegel, Eric (April 12, 2017). "The Real Problem with Charles Murray and "The Bell Curve"". Scientific American. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Lemann, Nicholas (January 18, 1997). "The Bell Curve Flattened: Subsequent research has seriously undercut the claims of the controversial best seller". Slate. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ "Bell Curve author Charles Murray speaks out after speech cut short by protests". The Guardian. March 6, 2017. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (February 12, 2020). "Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
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VoxConsensuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Intelligence research should not be held back by its past". Nature. 545 (7655): 385–386. May 25, 2017. Bibcode:2017Natur.545R.385.. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22021. PMID 28541341.
Historical measurements of skull volume and brain weight were done to advance claims of the racial superiority of white people. More recently, the (genuine but closing) gap between the average IQ scores of groups of black and white people in the United States has been falsely attributed to genetic differences between the races.
- ^ Bird, Kevin; Jackson, John P.; Winston, Andrew S. (2024). "Confronting Scientific Racism in Psychology: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology and Genetics". American Psychologist. 79 (4): 497–508. doi:10.1037/amp0001228.
Recent articles claim that the folk categories of race are genetically meaningful divisions, and that evolved genetic differences among races and nations are important for explaining immutable differences in cognitive ability, educational attainment, crime, sexual behavior, and wealth; all claims that are opposed by a strong scientific consensus to the contrary. ... Despite the veneer of modern science, RHR [racial hereditarian research] psychologists' recent efforts merely repeat discredited racist ideas of a century ago. The issue is truly one of scientific standards; if psychology embraced the scientific practices of evolutionary biology and genetics, current forms of RHR would not be publishable in reputable scholarly journals.