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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Educators and Students Beware!,
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This review is from: The Psychology of Sex and Gender (Paperback)
This book is completely useless to anyone who wishes to learn or teach anything. The data is old, research outdated, and facts misrepresented. For example, one chapter used a study from 1970 that had no controls and then compared the study to "the norm."
The illustrations also leave a great deal to be desired. Several of the pictures are photos of the author's children; they are small, poorly cropped, and self-promoting. Instead of diagrams of the human brain, there appear to be pencil sketches that are highly inaccurate and distorted- a shoddy way to cut costs in a textbook. The entire book is designed to be taught as a course's only text, but it doesn't provide enough context. Each chapter is all about how the author's classes noticed this and they were ever so clever and the author was also clever for implementing these learning devices. For a cheaper alternative book with much more legitimate information, I recommend The Psychology of Gender, Second Edition, Alice H. Eagly, Anne E. Beall, Robert J. Sternberg. |
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The Psychology of Sex and Gender by Barbara Smith (Paperback - April 21, 2006)
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