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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... Spearman and general intelligence, The two-factor theory The method of tetrad differences Spearman's g and the great instauration of psychology Spearman's g and the theoretical justification of IQ Spearman's reification of g Spearman on ...
... Spearman's theory Burt on the reification of factors Burt and the political uses of g L. L. Thurstone and the vectors of mind, Thurstone's critique and reconstruction The egalitarian interpretation of PMA's Spearman and Burt react ...
... Spearman's g— the theory of intelligence as a unitary, rankable, genetically based, and minimally alterable thing in the head. The Mismeasure of Man is a logical, empirical, and historical argument against this very theory of ...
... Spearman's g—the central claim of the unitary theory of intelligence, and the only justification that such a notion has ever had (The Bell Curve is fundamentally a long defense of g, explicitly so stated)—was nothing more than the first ...
... Spearman's g—the unitary thing in the head. But factor analysis has usually been ignored, thus precluding all possibility of real understanding. I resolved that I would treat factor analysis head-on—and I have never struggled so hard to ...
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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 | |