Whether it is by making mistakes‚ by observing others‚ or repeating a process over again‚ it is human nature to learn. In their book The Bell Curve‚ Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray disagree and hold the position that human intelligence is inborn and measurable by IQ‚ which In turn shows how much success a single individual will have in life. The Bell Curve supports a class system‚ arguing that the intelligent are likely to become ever more dominant and prosperous‚ while the unintelligent are
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The Bell Curve The opinions of Herrnstein and Murray in their book‚ The Bell Curve is that human intelligence is both inherited and also has environmental factors that contribute to a person’s future in many different areas such as; finances‚ a career‚ when they start a family‚ and whether or not a person will break the law instead of a person’s level of education and economic status. The authors go on to say that the more intelligent people of society are keeping their distance from the less
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The bell curve is literally‚ the symmetrical curve created on a graph when using a frequency distribution method for a set of data‚ splitting the mean symmetrically. There is a big difference between standard deviation and the bell curve! Standard deviation shows the difference in variation from the average; the bell curve‚ also normal distribution or Gaussian distribution‚ shows the standard deviation and is created by the normal or equal distribution of the mean among either half. The bell curve
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Criticisms for “The Bell Curve” As the book breeches many controversial subjects about race and intelligence‚ there have been many people who have said that the findings in Herrnstein and Murray’s joint publication are not only filled with bias‚ but also fail to represent common testing errors that may leave the minority at a disadvantage. In an article entitled “Bias in mental testing since Bias in Mental Testing”‚ Robert Brown and his colleague Cecil Reynolds refute the use of cognitive assessment
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Response to “Criticism of The Bell Curve” This article is based on the comparing of cognitive abilities in different groups of people of all different categories such as IQ and social problems‚ IQ and race‚ and IQ and social policy. The Bell Curve‚ published in 1994‚ was written by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray as a work designed to explain‚ using empirical statistical analysis‚ the variations in intelligence in American Society‚ raise some warnings regarding the consequences of this intelligence
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How to create a Histogram in Excel First‚ the Data Analysis "toolpak" must be installed. To do this‚ pull down the Tools menu‚ and choose Add-Ins. You need to have a column of numbers in the spreadsheet that you wish to create the histogram from‚ AND you need to have a column of intervals or "Bin" to be the upper boundary category labels on the X-axis of the histogram. See example of spreadsheet below: Pull Down the Tools Menu and Choose Data Analysis‚ and then choose Histogram and click
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To create a chart in Excel 2007 To create a chart in Excel 2007‚ Open to the worksheet that contains your unsummarized data. Select the cell range of the data to be charted. If your cell range contains two nonadjacent areas‚ hold down the Ctrl key as you drag and select each area. Select Insert and in the Charts group‚ click the chart type. From the drop-down gallery that appears‚ click the chart sub-type you want. To help distinguish sub-types‚ move the mouse pointer over a sub-type
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handle unpredictable conditions‚ approaches to challenging task and communication style when collaboration with colleagues are obligatory‚ thus are similar key components in the medical and teaching profession. However‚ according to the article‚ “The Bell Curve” by Atul Gawande‚ accountability for the results‚ which considered “average work”‚ does not hold prominence as do in the teaching profession. Like the attributes of Dr. Warren Warwick‚ director of Fairview University Children’s Hospital‚ an exemplary
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what a spreadsheet was‚ etc. So I started at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet. I read that and got a good base of spreadsheets and the history. First of all‚ Microsoft Excel is the industry standard in spreadsheets (history on spreadsheets can be accessed at the above website address). With Excel‚ you can create a shared workbook and place it on a network location where several people can edit‚ change‚ and work on the contents of a workbook‚ I discovered. Therefore‚ if the people in your
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Getting Started in Excel Many of the editing tools that you use in Excel are similar to Word and PowerPoint You will need to become familiar with a few new things for Excel: Rows‚ Columns‚ Various Formulas‚ and Charts just to name a few When you see a reference such as A7‚ A is the column and 7 is the row‚ this will give you the particular cell that is being referenced. You will learn that you can click or enter in information when it comes to cells and formulas. Everyone will have their own
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