Why was The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life so controversial?

A. It claimed that American school systems were biased against ethnic minority students.
B. It claimed that American children were less intelligent than they were in previous generations.
C. It claimed that ethnic differences in intelligence test scores were due to inherited, permanent differences in genetics.
D. all of these


Answer: C

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