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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... of MAN The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve R. E. W. E. E. D. A. N. D. E. × P A N D. E. D. W. T. H. A. N. E. W. NTR C. D. L. C. T. C. N. BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD IN NORTON PAPERBACK EVER SINCE DARWIN. Front Cover.
... Bell Curve The Bell Curve, Disingenuousness of content Disingenuousness of argument Disingenuousness of program Ghosts of Bell Curves past, Three Centuries' Perspectives on Race and Racism Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking ...
... Bell Curve, published with Charles Murray in 1994, and the immediate prod for this revised version of The Mismeasure of Man. As I stated above, articles on this subject by people of notoriety appear every month in prominent places. In ...
... Bell Curve must therefore, and once again as always, be recording a swing of the political pendulum to a sad position that requires a rationale for affirming social inequalities as dictates of biology. (If I may make a somewhat lurid ...
... bell curve. (Bell curves are technically called normal distributions; they arise when variation is distributed randomly around the mean— equally in both directions, with greater probability of values near the mean.) Specific pathologies ...
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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 | |