How long does it take to read The Bell Curve?
Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles A. Murray
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles A. Murray takes about 15 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 30 minutes
A long haul
First published 1994. 845 pages, about 232,375 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage. The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty, and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's social problems. Presents the view that low intelligence is the cause of many of America's social problems.
Subjects: Educational psychology, Intellect, Intelligence levels, Nature and nurture, Social aspects, Social aspects of Intelligence levels
