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The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
The history of attempts to rank human intelligence: craniometry, IQ, factor analysis, and their biases. Contested, influential, essential.
Read it if…
you want the critique of biological determinism.
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Skip it if…
you want the other side; read it too.
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Three things you will actually use
- Reification is a fallacy.
- Measures carry assumptions.
- Check the data.
Do this first
Read the chapters on Binet and on factor analysis.
Our verdict
Gould on measurement.
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