The Bell Curve Explained CHARLES MURRAY American Enterprise Institute From the book "The Bell Curve" by Charles C. Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein Share on Facebook Tweet Send email In April, I recorded an interview of almost two and a half hours with Sam Harris for his Waking Up Podcast which, I learned only after I had done it, regularly attracts a few million listeners. We spent more than half of the interview discussing what is actually in The Bell Curve as opposed to what people think is in it. Both of us expected our Twitter feeds to light up with nasty reactions after the interview was posted. But the opposite happened. The nasty reactions were far outnumbered by people who said they had always assumed that The Bell Curve was the hateful pseudoscientific mess that the critics had claimed, but had now decided they wanted to give the book a chance. It has been a heartening experience. However, there is a difficulty with giving The Bell Curve a chance. The paper...