Mismeasure of Man
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393300567 (0393300560)
Publish date: January 26th 1983
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I loved Stephen Jay Gould's calm way of eviscerating prejudiced, fraked up belief systems. An essential book if you have trouble getting the idea that you can't judge intelligence by looking at anything but intelligence.
Before a proper summation can be given, one first has to understand the Why of The Mismeasure of Man. The Why being hundreds of years of conservative, white-folk-do-well-because-they're-smartest ideology supported by "science", and the more recent belief in the existence of an inherited IQ number by...
Gould gives the history of IQ testing in a social and scientific context, exposing all the mistakes in the formulation and recognition of, for example, the factor g as a general, heritable, unique and unchangable measure of intelligence. He writes with ease and humour, and gives horrifying examples ...
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