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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... never forget the brilliance of Darwin and the truly great and informative errors made by his last generation of creationist opponents, Agassiz and Sedgwick? The foundation stones are forever; most current skirmishes follow the ...
... never dabbled—with one small exception as a personal favor to a dear, older, and revered colleague—in the genre of textbooks; life is too short.) My special skill lies in a combination, not a uniqueness. I was able to bring together two ...
... unchangeable intelligence never alters very much in each sequential formulation. Each surge to popularity works with the same fallacious logic and flawed information. The reasons for Why revise The Mismeasure of Man after fifteen years?,
... never be so fooled—while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.) The best form of objectivity lies in explicitly identifying preferences so that their influence can be recognized ...
... never saw The Mismeasure of Man in final form, he lived just long enough to read the galley proofs and know (shades, I recognize, of Al Jolson singing Kol Nidre as his dying father listened) that his scholar son had not forgotten his ...
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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 | |