The Mismeasure of Man

Basic Information

Title

The Mismeasure of Man

Subtitle

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Parallel Title

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Country

국외

Production Date

1981-**-**

Language

영어

Size (mm)

129 x 197

Pages

352쪽

ISBN/ISSN

0393300560

Edition

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Master Files

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Producer

Stephen Jay Gould (저자), W. W. Norton & Co (발행처)

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Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments = 15 1. Introduction = 19 2. American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin: Black and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species = 30 A shared context of culture, = 31 Preevolutionary styles of scientific racism: monogenism and polygenism, = 39 Louis Agassiz –America’s theorist of polygeny, = 42 Samuel George Morton-empiricist of polygeny, = 50 The American school and slavery, = 69 3. Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology = 73 The allure of numbers, = 73 Masters of craniometry: Paul Broca and his school, = 82 Postscript, = 108 4. Measuring Bodies: Two Case Studies on the Apishness of Undesirables = 113 The ape in all of us: recapitulation, = 113 The ape in some of us: Criminal anthropology, = 122 Epilogue, = 143 5. The Hereditarian Theory of IQ: An American Invention = 146 Alfred Binet and the original purpose of the Binet scale, = 146 H.H. Goddard and the menace of the freeble-minded, = 158 Lewis M. Terman and the mass marketing of innate IQ, = 174 R. M. Yerkes and the Army Mental Tests: IQ comes of age, = 192 6. The Real Error of Cyril Burt: Factor Analysis and the Reification of Intelligence = 234 The case of Sir Cyril Burt, = 234 Correlation, cause, and factor analysis, = 239 Charles Spearman and general intelligence,= 256 Cyril Burt and the hereditarian synthesis, = 273 L.L. Thurstone and the vectors of mind, = 296 Epilogue: Arthur Jensen and the resurrection of Spearman’s g, = 317 A final throught, = 320 7. A Positive Conclusion = 321 Debunking as positive science, = 321 Learning by debunking, = 322 Biology and human nature, = 324 Epilogue = 335 Bibliography = 337 Index = 345

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