The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)W. W. Norton & Company, 17 ביוני 2006 - 448 עמודים The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes." |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 89
... American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin: Blacks and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species A shared context of culture, Preevolutionary styles of scientific racism: monogenism and polygenism, Louis Agassiz—America's theorist of ...
... American Invention Alfred Binet and the original purposes of the Binet scale, Binet flirts with craniometry Binet's scale and the birth of IQ The dismantling of Binet's intentions in America H. H. Goddard and the menace of the feeble ...
... AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE: THE TRIUMPH OF RESTRICTION ON IMMIGRATION: BRIGHAM RECANTS 6. The Real Error of Cyril Burt: Factor Analysis and the Reification of Intelligence The case of Sir Cyril Burt, Correlation, cause, and factor analysis ...
... American Indians impacted the debates about westward expansion—but would not generally think about sitting down with Morton's tables of skull measurements and trying to figure out whether Morton had reported his data correctly. I ...
... American culture) given to all army recruits in World War I (and also, by yours truly, to classes of Harvard undergraduates); Cyril Burt's great, crucial, and genuine error (not his insignificant and later overt fraud) in the ...
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monogenism and polygenism | |
Samuel George Mortonempiricist of polygeny | |
The American school and slavery | |
Two Case Studies on the Apishness | |
Epilogue | |
Charles Spearman and general intelligence | |
Cyril Burt and the hereditarian synthesis | |
A Positive Conclusion | |
Epilogue | |
Ghosts of Bell Curves past | |
Three Centuries Perspectives on Race and Racism | |
The moral state of Tahitiand of Darwin | |
Bibliography | |