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	The Mismeasure of Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mismeasure of Man (1981) is a controversial book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002).
		Race, Intelligence, and the Brain: The errors and omissions of the 'revised' edition of S. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1996) (PDF) by J.
		Reflections on Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1981) by John B. Carroll, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man (2470 words)

	The Mismeasure of Man - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (ISBN 0393039722) is a controversial book critiquing what he saw as "scientific racism," starting with ideas such as craniometry and the eugenics movement and concluding with more recent developments in the study of race and intelligence.
		The first parts of the book are devoted to a scathing analysis of early works on a supposed biologically inherited basis for intelligence, such as research on craniometry (the measurement of skull volume and its relation to intellectual faculties).
		Gould’s Mismeasure of Man is a paleontologist’s distorted view of what psychologists think, untutored in even the most elementary facts of the science.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Mismeasure_of_Man (1799 words)

	Race, Intelligence, and the Brain - OD Board
		The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man appeared in 1981 and was quickly praised in the popular press as a definitive refutation of 100 years of scientific work on race, brain-size and intelligence.
		Hailed in the popular media as the definitive deconstruction of the 'myth' that science is an objective enterprise, the original The Mismeasure of Man was in fact an ad hominem attack on eminent scholars, past and present, who have scientifically studied race, intelligence, and brain size.
		Lombroso argued that many criminals were throwbacks to man's ancestral past, ill-suited to life in civilized society, and that therefore 'natural born criminals' could be identified by the presence of the anatomical signs of primitiveness he termed 'stigmata'.
	www.originaldissent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6412 (7476 words)

	Reflections on Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man"
		On its publication in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man (Gould, 1981) stirred in the reading public an interest and a clamor almost equal to that evoked by the recent appearance of Herrnstein and Murray's (1994) The Bell Curve.
		Despite these critical reviews, however, The Mismeasure of Man continues to be cited frequently in the social science literature, usually, but not always, with what can be taken as agreement and approval.
		It is my intention here to focus on the defense of factor analysis as an effective and scientifically justifiable method for the study of individual differences in cognitive abilities and other psychological attributes, as well as to make any necessary statements concerning the adequate measurement of such attributes.
	www.prometheism.net /articles/gould02.html (4266 words)

	Neo-Lynsenkoism, IQ, and the press
		It is important for the general public to understand why scientists close to the field have reacted so negatively to The Mismeasure of Man. The strength of science in analyzing reality comes from its strict separation of facts from values, of observations from expectations.
		The historical chapters, constituting most of The Mismeasure of Man, serve to convince the reader that the measurement of intelligence is immoral.
		It is pertinent, however, to note features of his professional writing remarkably similar to those that I have criticized in The Mismeasure of Man. In both contexts be focuses primarily on older approaches to problems in which genetics is now central; he picks his history; and he handles key concepts in an ambiguous manner.
	www.euvolution.com /articles/iqandpress.html (6460 words)

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		In some cases he argued that although a particular brain of an eminent man may have been average or smaller than average it was especially convoluted, which he took to be an indication of intellectual ability.
		In other cases he argued variously that the subjects had died very old, and their brains had thus degenerated, the brain was poorly preserved, or the person in question was of small stature and, thus, had a respectably sized brain for his body.
		What is remarkable about The Mismeasure of Man is that it provided a definitive critique of the reasoning behind The Bell Curve thirteen years before the latter was published.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /philosophy/20_feb_06.html (4244 words)

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		Biological determinism is too large a subject for one man and one book‹for it touches virtually every aspect of the interaction between biology and society since the dawn of modern science.
		Their conclusion is that the Negro is no more a white man than a donkey is a horse or a zebra‹a theory put into practice in the United States of America, to the shame of civilization (1860, pp.407-408).
		In Jamaica indeed they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but 'tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments like a parrot who speaks a few words plainly (in Popkin, 1974, p 143; see Popkin's excellent article for a long analysis of Hume as a polygenist).
	www.towson.edu /~sallen/COURSES/311/ESSAYS/TheMismeasureofMan.html (13049 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since mental tests of all varieties have been under attack for more than a decade, it is scarcely surprising that Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man has been received in some quarters as a devastating critique of testing.
		...While Gould's ostensible purpose is to challenge those who believe that man can be measured and ranked by a single number representing his "intelligence," the most telling case he makes is against the men who manipulate ideas and numbers and data to change society in the name of "science...
		...The Mismeasure of Man, as Gould points out repeatedly, is not a cautionary tale of bad hereditarians against good environmentalists...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V73I2P68-1.htm (3604 words)

	Gene Expression: Why Stephen J Gould was wrong
		From that Yglesias discussion I linked a while back, here's a debunking of the two central claims of the Mismeasure of Man. You may also be interested in this response by Arthur Jensen.
		The Mismeasure of Man didn't disprove the validity of IQ or factor analysis.
		Ironically, he was an exemplar of that which he decried: a man who twisted science for nakedly political ends.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/001524.html?entry=1524 (1383 words)

	The Religion of Nature: Social Darwinism by David Menton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The feature of Darwinism most often cited by those who attempt to justify their moral and social views with "science" (evolution), is the concept of the "survival of the fittest." This application of Darwinian dogma to human society and behavior is known as Social Darwinism.
		One of the most insidious features of Darwin's evolutionary speculation was that it sought to erase the fundamental differences between man and animals.
		The "nature god" declares that anything which is "natural" may be considered "moral." (Thus, elective abortions are moral because spontaneous abortions occur in nature.) As we have seen, the fruit of this religion of nature (in the form of Social Darwinism) has been untold suffering and death.
	www.gennet.org /facts/metro15.html (1117 words)

	The Mismeasure of Gould: Marxists ideology vs biological reality and eugenics.
		Having demonstrated in The Mismeasure of Man that Plato and Jensen are lying, Gould (1981/1996) goes on to assure the reader that he feels quite competent in doing what he must do: "I feel I have a decent and proper grasp of the logic and empirics of arguments about biological determinism....
		Previously, in his original (1981) version of The Mismeasure of Man, he had said: "If the cultural influences upon science can be detected in the humdrum minutiae of a supposedly objective, almost automatic quantification, then the status of biological determinism as a social prejudice reflected by scientists in their own particular medium seems secure" (p.
		In contrast, the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.
	home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/gou.htm (16736 words)

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		In The Mismeasure of Man, Gould (1996) states that the hypothesis to be tested by S.G. Morton was "that a ranking of races could be established 'objectively' by physical characteristics of the brain, particularly by its size." (p.83).
		In Morton's study, Crania Aegyptiaca, he failed to control for a couple of important confounding covariates (i.e., variables that covary with the DV and, hence, confound the presumed relationship between the IV and DV).
		In the Mismeasure of Man, which type of psychometric problem did Catherine Cox immediately encounter when she attempted to estimate IQs of 282 historical personages?
	www.cps.nova.edu /~cpphelp/class/psy2809/midterm.doc (3704 words)

	Book Review: The Mismeasure of Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mismeasure of Man depicts a historical study of the racism in science, in particular the historical racism of intelligence.
		Scientists fixed the data either by not using all their results of using an unequal number of subjects for each race used in that particular study.
		It challenges their vocabulary as well as makes them think whether or not they would remove any of their data when doing a study.
	educ.queensu.ca /~science/main/profdev/books/PDBRKM.htm (570 words)

	The Mismeasure of Man: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mismeasure of Man: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould quick summary:
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_mismeasure_of_man.htm (2090 words)

	The Errors and Omissions of the Revised Edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man
		Summary - The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man appeared in 1981 and was quickly praised in the popular press as a definitive refutation of 100 years of scientific work on race, brain-size and intelligence.
		Gould claimed to have detected "conscious skullduggery" in Goddard's (1912) study of the heritability of feeblemindedness in the Kallikak family and alleged that Goddard's photographs had been 'phonied' by inserting heavy lines to give the eyes and mouth a 'depraved', 'sinister', and 'diabolical appearance'.
		The second edition of The Mismeasure of Man does not measure up to Gould's own standard of "honest assessment and best judgment of evidence for empirical truth".
	www.prometheism.net /articles/gould03.html (8195 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould's Battle Against Racism
		Twenty years ago, Gould, a Harvard University scientist, published ''The Mismeasure of Man,'' which challenged the historical ranking of people by so-called levels of intelligence.
		Gould led the reader on a near-comical documentary of the ways the scientists of yesteryear tried to measure skulls, brains, heredity, and even the tattooing on criminals with the primary goal of declaring that western and northern Europeans had higher IQs than Eastern and Southern Europeans and people of color had much lower IQs.
		In 1996 Gould published a revised edition of ''The Mismeasure of Man,'' because men were still mismeasuring men and women.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views02/0529-01.htm (678 words)

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		Once I read past the introduction (which I do not suggest reading due to his constant praise of himself and his book), I found myself to be indulged in the various criticisms and theories of past psychologists, scientists, and therapists.
		The Mismeasure of Man is an investigation into human intelligence in order to determine a ranking based on a single derived factor.
		Gould's book is one that is rare and different in a time where all that is presented is sex and scandal, romance and lust, and life stories.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/acolton/eng300/reviews.txt (549 words)

	The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (14 copies; separate)
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	FairTest Examiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 90 pages of new material added to the largely-unchanged core text, Gould applies his keen analytic eye to the claims of the latest generation of genetic determinists.
		While the updated edition does not have the space to refute all the spurious data and unsupported conclusions produced by Herrnstein and Murray in their 800-page tome (see Examiner, Winter 1994-95), Gould does neutralize their core thesis in his customary readable style.
		Copies of the revised edition of The Mismeasure of Man are available from FairTest for $13.95 postpaid.
	www.fairtest.org /examarts/spring98/mismeas.htm (188 words)

	Marsteller: teaching way outside of the box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Students anticipating a standard classroom experience in the course titled "Mismeasure of Woman, Mismeasure of Man" were mistaken.
		Picture a professor whose master's degree work focused on "celestial compass orientation in juvenile American alligators." Add to that Patricia Marsteller's unique approach to instruction: in her evolving evolution course, for example, students might be asked to be a Victorian for a day or think about evolution in reverse.
		In "Mismeasure" students ponder the differences between men and women by examining variations in disease incidence, behavior and physiology between different sexes in human populations.
	www.emory.edu /EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2000/April/erapril.3/4_3_00marsteller.html (538 words)

	Amazon.de: The Mismeasure of Man: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Undoubtedly, this is because his reasoning is quite good, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a serious objection to any major point in his book.
		To object, as some have done, that The Mismeasure of Man is political correctness passing for science, is simply name calling (another argumentum ad hominem).
		_The Mismeasure of Man_ is the best book I have read on intelligence testing, and I hope you read it, too.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393314251 (1438 words)

	Mismeasure Of Man by Stephen Gould, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0393314251
		If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading.
		Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests.
		A rare book-at once of great importance and wonderful to read....Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism....A major addition to scientific literature.
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	Gould
		Although almost all of his books for the public (and for his discipline) were well-received, one of his most incisive and powerful books — in my opinion — was The Mismeasure of Man, published in 1983 and re-issued in 1996.
		To appreciate and enjoy the To give some examples of what Gould set out so clearly in The Mismeasure of Man. Someone at all familiar with IQ tests might recall that the earliest American IQ test was the Stanford-Binet test.
		In The Mismeasure of Man, Gould wrote as much about the folly of science as about its cosmic mysteries.
	www.stephendrury.com /Notes/Gould.html (1525 words)

	Just to add a couple more Darwin quotes to the ones flying around, here's an excerpt from (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla (Descent of Man, 1871, p.
		I'd recommend The Mismeasure of Man to anyone who's interested in the issue of scientific racism and changing attitudes toward race.
		And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/darwin2r.htm (481 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Commentaries
		Carroll, John B. Reflections on Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man." Retrospective review, originally published in Intelligence 21 (1995): 121-34.
		"The Mismeasure of Man." Review of The Mismeasure of Man, originally published in The New York Times (Oct. 21, 1981).
		Carroll, John B. "Reflections on Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1981): a retrospective review." Intelligence 21 (Sept-Oct, 1995): 121-34.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/gould/commentary (768 words)

	RaceSci: History of Race in Science: Syllabi: Rhetoric of Race and Science
		Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, Book 1.
		Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, Books 2-3.
		Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, Book 4 and epilogue.
	web.mit.edu /racescience/syllabi/rhetoric_of_race_and_scie.html (698 words)

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