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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... school and slavery, 3. Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology, The allure of numbers, Introduction Francis Galton—apostle of quantification A curtain-raiser with a moral: numbers do not guarantee truth.
... Broca and his school, The great circle route Selecting characters Averting anomalies BIG-BRAINED GERMANS SMALL-BRAINED MEN OF EMINENCE LARGE-BRAINED CRIMINALS FLAWS IN A PATTERN OF INCREASE THROUGH TIME Front and back THE CRANIAL INDEX ...
... Broca, Binet, and Burt so long as scholarship and a fascination with history endure. But I suspect that the world will little note, nor long remember, Jensen, Murray, Herrnstein, Lewontin, and Gould. Since I wrote about the great and ...
... Broca's meticulous statistics in the odd light of his unconscious social prejudices; Goddard's altered photographs of the imbecile line of Kallikaks in the New Jersey pine barrens; Yerkes's supposed test of innate intelligence (but ...
... Broca's data and finding the holes and unconscious prejudices, of reconstructing Yerkes's test to army recruits, of hefting a skull filled with lead shot. How much more rewarding than easy reliance on secondary sources, and copying a ...
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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 | |