What is one criticism of the conclusions offered by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in The Bell Curve?
A) They confused polygenic and monogenic inheritance.
B) Few people have taken intelligence tests, so their conclusions have limited generalizability.
C) They failed to distinguish between correlation and causation.
D) Their data were obtained improperly.

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One common criticism of The Bell Curve is that Herrnstein and Murray did not adequately distinguish between correlation and causation. They often inferred causation from correlation, which is a logical fallacy. For example, they suggested that lower socio-economic status causes lower IQ, when it's equally plausible that lower IQ causes lower socio-economic status, or that some third factor (e.g. education) influences both IQ and socio-economic status.

What Is One Criticism of the Conclusions Offered by Richard