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The Mismeasure of Man
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bookshelves: evolution, philosophy, history, science, social-theory, race
Jul 07, 2007
bookshelves: evolution, philosophy, history, science, social-theory, race
Have you ever felt a little upset with white people saying black people are lesser people? Well, prepare to feel furious. Gould documents a series of scientific frauds by racist scientists seeking to show white racial superiority.
This book will make your blood boil - but if more people had read it no one would have fallen for all that bell-curve rubbish a few years later.
Racism sucks, and it is based on ignorance. If you are looking for a cure to such ignorance, this is as good a place to start as any.
This book will make your blood boil - but if more people had read it no one would have fallen for all that bell-curve rubbish a few years later.
Racism sucks, and it is based on ignorance. If you are looking for a cure to such ignorance, this is as good a place to start as any.
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Feb 01, 2013 06:57AM
Agreed. It really makes me wonder why seemingly sensible sociological researchers like Richard Nisbett don't reference it in their own surveys of intelligence and performance studies.
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I'm going to have to learn more about Nisbett - he wrote Social Psychology with Thomas Gilovich - who wrote How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life and that was a really amazing book. That would go some way to suggesting he isn't completely stupid...
No, excepting the penultimate two chapters of Intelligence and How to Get It, he comes across as extremely bright (not to mention detail-oriented]. If you do check out that book, I'd be curious to get your take on it.
