Psychology Question: Who was the man during the 60's that did a study on racial learning that was false?

Question

Psychology topic: Who was the man who did a famous study during the 1960's on racial groups who said asians were smarter, then came caucasians, and last were african americans. Later they found his study to be wrong. What is this mans name?? why was his study wrong?

Answer 1

Isn't he the one who came up with the Bell Curve?

Answer 2

"The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political pundit Charles Murray. Its central point is that the intelligent and their children (the "cognitive elite") are affluent due largely to an innate genetic and intellectual superiority to the non-intelligent. Also, the book argued that psychometric intelligence is inversely correlated with human misery. The book had the potential for offending the majority of the U.S. population in that it constitutes a defense of plutocracy and inequality due to race, and it became widely read and debated, especially Chapters 13 and 14, where the authors state that blacks and Hispanics have a lower mean intelligence than whites and Asians due to genetic factors."

The authors Herrnstein and Murray are the ones who wrote the controversial book and theorized on this data in the mid-90's. And various articles have been published as well as studies conducted to respond to their theores. Search for Nature vs. Nurture.

Answer 3

"The Bell Curve" by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray

Answer 4

Bell?