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Krishnan, Parmeswara – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Comments on some methodological limitations of the research base of "The Bell Curve": blind use of the normal distribution (bell curve); avoidance of nonnormal statistical distributions, which are more appropriate for some social and economic characteristics; copious use of percentiles and quintiles, inappropriate with nonnormal…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient, Multivariate Analysis, Research Methodology