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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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0393314251
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978-0393314250
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Revised and Expanded
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W. W. Norton & Company
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5 Jun. 1996
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English
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13.97 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm
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448 pages
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A rare book-at once of great importance and wonderful to read.-- "Saturday Review"

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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Revised and Expanded edition (5 Jun. 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393314251
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393314250
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm

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AJ

Fantastic critique of IQ testing

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This book is so easy to read, apart from chapter 6- too much mathematics for me. An excellent critique of the development of IQ testing. Refreshingly honest and personal too. Although be warned some aspects of the history of IQ testing will make your blood boil - Gould identifies and challenges racism and social injustice at each stage.

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KStevenson

An excellent history of the IQ Test

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An excellent history of the IQ test originating in France as a means of identifying school children who required extra tuition but which later became a tool of discrimination in the USA. IQ was never claimed to be a fixed value and could be increased. Also, that intelligence cannot be reduced to a number. A well researched book.

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An author who places truth at the forefront of human's request for knowledge, debunking the convenience of pseudoscience.

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Ben Jones

Why do smart people continue to have smart children?

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A provocative book. In defence of the arguments presented in this book and in no way to claim that this book is perfect, but to cut through much of the noise, I recommend reading John Horgan's article in Scientific American 'Defending Stephen Jay Gould's Crusade against Biological Determinism'.

The vested interest Gould pointed to is an industry with its foot in the door of our educational institutions. The implications of their highly controversial positions are far from well proven - those academics who have spent their professional lives in a search for - g - a genetic basis for IQ, have been well funded but mired in frustration. While smart people continue to have smart children, the genetic polymorphisms implied by this heritability remain unclear, perhaps there are other reasons why smart people have smart children /shrug/.

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Brian Wilson, New Zealand

A G-String Approach to Intelligence

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2014

The Mismeasure of Man - revised and expanded version by Stephen Jay Gould, is an analyses of the measurement of intelligence over three centuries. This chronology covers theories and research by: Agassiz, Galton, Broca, Lombroso, Binét, Goddard, Terman, Spearman, Burt, Thurstone and Jensen, and provides for interesting reading. Gould has an excellent knowledge on the subject matter and his discussion including many preposterous assumptions by scientists over the last three centuries is a wake-up call to those blind believers in science, especially evolution. While science is a fluid discipline expanding the horizons of knowledge, it is (as shown in this book) also thwart with fraud and bias and is not always gospel. It is ludicrous that even in this day and age, scientists and science magazines subscribe to politically correct views and personal bias rather than being objective and transparent. One example is the endorsement of homosexuality as being normal, when in passing Gould correctly points out that this has no genetic basis.

This book asks some very important questions such as how do we define intelligence and does ranking really matter? Binét, who first developed IQ testing, never intended IQ tests to be used for anything other than identifying children who needed extra help. Since then, like Myers Briggs personality profiles, IQ ranking is both common-place and misused, and in respect to Spearman’s g there always remains the question around construct validity. Spearman identified a principal component through factor analysis, but is this the construct for intelligence (if one exists) and does this have a universal application given that each culture may define intelligence differently?

As an evolutionary biologist, Gould is quick to dismiss creationists as well as others who share different views. In his book he displays a similar arrogance to those whom he chastises and like his predecessors he is also guilty of bias. Ironically, while he draws attention to erroneous and flawed research he embraces with tunnel vision, the theory of evolution- somewhat more manufactured and flawed.
This is a book that, dear I say, can be easily understood by most people with an average/above average IQ!

Brian Wilson, New Zealand

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