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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 & limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated & thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book & tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right thru The Bell Curve. Further, he's added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular & on race, racism & biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton Univ. has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudobiological 'explanations' of our present social woes."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Norton (January 1, 1981)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393014894
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393014891
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.98 x 7.99 inches

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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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D. Swanson

Old but great!

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016

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Each time I finish one of Gould's books, I think, "This was the best one yet!" And then I start another and am spellbound all the way through. He weaves a lot of humor into the history of what might seem stuffy science history, but he always makes it interesting. His writing is NOT stuffy, but very reachable and a pleasure. The topics often (especially involving racial issues) hit home today.

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nelson mejia

Anyway my professor had recommended this book for me and I absolutely love it

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2017

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I was taking an online course for my university about race and Asian American experience in the U.S and began to wander after I had finished the course, where the construct of race began? Why? And who helped propel it through time? Anyway my professor had recommended this book for me and I absolutely love it... pick it up it's a must

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Andrew K. Galloway

IQ only explains very little when trying to judge the worth of a person.

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2014

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I love the way Gould gets to the heart of things and explains his arguments in an easy to understand way. I highly recommend this and any of his books to enlighten your knowledge of many subjects. I am not saying he is the final authority on any of these subjects but after reading him, I always feel I am better off for putting in the time to read his books.

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JP

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016

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Great Reference Book!

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José Rafael Iguina-Monrouzeau

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014

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Excellent condition. Better than I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015

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Who will test the testmakers?

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2002

This book relates in exquisite detail the history of intelligence testing in the US and, in its early stages, in France. Bluntly, the enterprise of intelligence testing, whether by crude measurement of skull volume or in the supposedly more sophisticated form of testing by psychological instrument, was historically driven by a racist agenda -- which Gould is extremely persuasive in uncovering. From systematic bias in "error" to outright departure from the empirical method, Gould uncovers it all for the world to see, in his eminently readable style.
Gould also makes clear that the intelligence-testing psychological instruments in use today, however free modern practitioners may be of racial bias, are directly derived from instruments designed either for racist purposes or for the strict purpose of identifying developmental pathology (rather than the measure of normal intelligence). Thus, while the famous "IQ test" can truly be said to be measuring some statistical regularities in human performance, there is absolutely no basis for concluding that what is being measured is what we think of as "intelligence" -- or even anything particularly well-correlated with it.
Left for the reader to ponder for him- or herself is whether the central question of intelligence testing can even be intelligibly posed, or whether the whole enterprise is best relegated to the same slag-pile as phlogiston research and the search for the philosopher's stone [*sorcerer's* stone to American readers ;) ].
The 1993 revised and expanded edition contains Gould's rebuttal to The Bell Curve.

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Jethro Cao

SJS was a charlatan

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2016

Sorry to break it to you guys, but Stephen Jay Gould was a fraudulent scientist. He was guilty of the very same ideological bias that he erroneously accused Samuel George Morton of. "Irony" doesn't seem quite enough to describe this farce.

Just search for the NYTimes article, "Scientists Measure the Accuracy of a Racism Claim" and judge for yourselves.

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Mariusz Kulesza

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2016

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incredible

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Arrakis

Mesure et démesure de la biologie

Reviewed in France on September 6, 2015

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Stephen Jay Gould nous donne ici un magnifique ouvrage d'érudition scientifique. Il analyse avec clarté et minutie les préjugés inhérents à une vision "dure" du déterminisme biologique qui permettrait de différencier et de classer l'espèce humaine en races, groupes sociaux, ou niveaux d'intelligence. Il passe au crible les théories avancées par l'école polygéniste américaine, la craniométrie de Broca, l'atavisme de Lombroso, les usages théoriques et pratiques du Quotient Intellectuel, et l'analyse factorielle de l'intelligence de Burt. L'ensemble offre un portrait scientifique passionnant des errements de cette volonté toujours présente de fonder en science nos préjugés sociaux. On en revient à Protagoras, l'homme est la mesure de toute chose!

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DR NEIL C SCOTT

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2013

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Excellent review of the darker side of Intelligence Testing. I can't agree with all of his conclusions and the usefulness of such tests are well documented, as are the dangers of using them. But this is extremely engaging and readable and a must read for anyone seriously involved in the development or propogation of psychometrics as it raises serious issues that mustn't be ignored.

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