Is There a Unique Black Eye Cue?

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I was going to read a portion from your book again here, about the way sol's mind works. Even before charles murray and richard hernstein published the bell kurve in 94, he went back to arthur jenson, the educational psychologist,. who made that argument that there are black white differences. Neither of them has raised the more basic question, is there, in fact, a unique black eye cue? And that is why i did the historical study. Sole explained how the empirical evidence undermined both theories. He pointed out, i'm soclarciis showed that e the environment was clearly, clearly playing a role. If you want to help people, you

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