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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... Positive Conclusion Debunking as positive science, Learning by debunking, Biology and human nature, Epilogue Critique of The Bell Curve The Bell Curve, Disingenuousness of content Disingenuousness of argument Disingenuousness of program ...
... positive reaction with an alternative vision (not, I trust, as a negativistic diatribe); the second has prompted me to publish this revised version. Arthur Jensen launched the first of these recent episodes in 1969 with a notoriously ...
... positive (for Binet rejected the hereditarian interpretation, and only wanted to use the test as a device to identify children in need of special help; and for this humane goal, I have nothing but praise). The Mismeasure of Man is a ...
... positive correlations measured for the length of bones in a series of organisms varying from small to large within a species. This example is trivial. In a more complex case, subject to numerous interpretations, we generally measure ...
... positive correlation among tests. I also knew that principal components of factor analyses are mathematical abstractions, not empirical realities— and that every matrix subject to factor analysis can be represented just as well by other ...
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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 | |