You said "Murray has crunched the numbers rather than counting the anecdotes" which may be true, but he crunched the numbers in The Bell Curve too.
Given The Bell Curve, none of his number-crunching statements are believable, without close scrutiny.
I do know who Barbara Ehrenreich is, and I agree much more with her than with Murray, but calling her a socialist is typical political name-calling.
Edit: changed "right-wing" in the last sentence to "political" as being more accurate and less political.
Okay, so because he made unspecified errors in a book he cowrote years ago, we should not believe what some other social scientists have researched. After all, Murray has cited them!
but calling her a socialist is typical political name-calling.
Apparently you don't 'know who Barbara Ehrenreich is':
She is a a member of the Democratic Socialist party. Her Wikipedia page mentions that she's a socialist before it mentions that she's a writer! Calling her a socialist is like calling Obama a Democrat -- a radical redefinition of name-calling, though it does please me that merely identifying someone as a member of a leftist party is considered grievously insulting.
Given The Bell Curve, none of his number-crunching statements are believable, without close scrutiny. I do know who Barbara Ehrenreich is, and I agree much more with her than with Murray, but calling her a socialist is typical political name-calling.
Edit: changed "right-wing" in the last sentence to "political" as being more accurate and less political.