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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... Yerkes and the Army Mental Tests: IQ comes of age, Psychology's great leap forward Results of the army tests A critique of the Army Mental Tests THE CONTENT OF THE TESTS INADEQUATE CONDITIONS DUBIOUS AND PERVERSE PROCEEDINGS: A PERSONAL ...
... Yerkes's supposed test of innate intelligence (but actual index of familiarity with 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 ...
... Yerkes—who translated and popularized the tests in this country. If we ask how such a perversion could occur in our land of liberty and justice for all, we must remember that the years just following World War I, the time of peak ...
... 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 few conventional thoughts from other commentators. Second, simplify writing by ...
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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 | |