To: mjolnir
Gould is well known for having written the Mismeasure of Man, a screed attacking the Bell Curve and its authors as pseudo-scientists rather than dealing with its facts and arguments
Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981
Herrnstein and Murray, The Bell Curve, 1994
339 posted on
06/23/2006 5:59:21 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death--Heinlein)
To: Coyoteman; mjolnir
A revised edition apparently included an attack on The Bell Curve. In general The Mismeasure of Man attacked the notion of objectively measuring IQ. I only read the portion that I happened to be interested in, principally the parts about 19th Century scientific racism, e.g. the cranial measurements of the American polygenist Samuel Morton.
340 posted on
06/23/2006 6:10:49 PM PDT by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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