The Mismeasure of Man (Pelican S )
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
s/t: A Brilliant and Controversial Study of Intelligence Testing Can human intelligence be measured? Here the world-famous Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould makes a fascinating investigation. From nineteenth-century craniometry (literally, the measurement of skulls) to today’s vastly sophisticated methods of IQ testing, he traces the history of scientists’ attempts to as….Read More
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