Mismeasure

I'm reading a book called the Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.

Saartjie Baartman: The "Hottentot Venus" Anxious Black Woman 2008

I’d call The Mismeasure of Woman, Why Men Can’t Ask for Directions, and The Cooperative Gene, to name a few, serious scientific critiques of the more ideological and thus bad-science wing of EP.

Responses to Real Manhood 2004

In 1981, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould published "The Mismeasure of Man," a fierce critique of various scientific attempts to measure human intelligence.

When We See What We Want Jonah Lehrer 2011

Bryan sent me a paper by them that was straight out of the Stephen Jay Gould "Mismeasure of Man" playbook -- attack a great scientist of the 19th century (in this case Karl Pearson, inventor of the correlation coefficient) for his shortcomings, as if that's terribly relevant to important issues of the 21st Century.

Analytical Egalitarianism and Truth-Seeking: Strain the Gnat, Swallow the Camel, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Read “The Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Jay Gould for a good look at how Yerkes and others have jerked us around for decades.

Matthew Yglesias » Paying for the Experience that Counts 2010

People also made a point of reading and discussing scientific books (I particularly remember conversations about Stephen Jay Gould's Ontogeny and Phylogeny and The Mismeasure of Man).

Martin Chalfie - Autobiography 2009

This is the logical fallacy of reification, and the last century of psychological science is filled with unfortunate examples, as Stephen J. Gould trenchantly observed in The Mismeasure of Man.

Threats to school reform ... are within school reform Valerie Strauss 2010

About six months ago, I read “the Mismeasure of Man,” a really wonderful and fascinating book by Stephen J. Gould.

The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists 2010

According to Gould (author of The Mismeasure of Man), the idea of heritability is confused by many: "If all environments were to become equal for everyone, heritability would rise to 100% because all remaining differences in IQ would necessarily be genetic in origin."

What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

And there is Stephen Jay Gould's classic work on the misuse of intelligence tests: "The Mismeasure of Man" (1981) written almost thirty years ago and Howard Gardner's books on "multiple intelligences."

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: "Gifted and Talented?" 2010