title: How heritability misleads about race.
abstract: The Bell Curve revives and elaborates an argument given by Jensen to the effect that facts about heritability of IQ in whites dictate that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ. But clarification of the concept of heritability shows that this reasoning is fallacious. Heritability is an uninteresting measure that only misleads us about race.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139-4307, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Block
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People / Q000235:genetics; D004777:Environment; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D012931:Social Environment