thecuriousmail wrote on Aug 18
th, 2017 at 6:29pm:
rhino wrote on Aug 18
th, 2017 at 5:52pm:
thecuriousmail wrote on Aug 18
th, 2017 at 5:09pm:
I take it that nobody has read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man?
But I understand it would be unwelcome to some to introduce intelligence.
Im familiar with his work, hes been discredited by subsequent scientific studies though.
I am aware of criticism, some justified, some not (by my estimation). But discredited??
Which studies???
For one thing we now know for sure there is a direct correlation between brain size and IQ. Also, Gould used pre 50s research and ignored contemparary studies.
Quote:Arthur Jensen and Bernard Davis argued that if the g factor (general intelligence factor) were replaced with a model that tested several types of intelligence, it would change results less than one might expect. Therefore, according to Jensen and Davis, the results of standardized tests of cognitive ability would continue to correlate with the results of other such standardized tests, and that the intellectual achievement gap between black and white people would remain.[31]
Psychologist J. Philippe Rushton accused Gould of "scholarly malfeasance" for misrepresenting and for ignoring contemporary scientific research pertinent to the subject of his book, and for attacking dead hypotheses and methods of research. He faulted The Mismeasure of Man because it did not mention the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies that showed the existence of statistical correlations among brain-size, IQ, and the g factor, despite Rushton having sent copies of the MRI studies to Gould. Rushton further criticized the book for the absence of the results of five studies of twins reared apart corroborating the findings of Cyril Burt—the contemporary average was 0.75 compared to the average of 0.77 reported by Burt.[34]
James R. Flynn, a researcher critical of racial theories of intelligence, repeated the arguments of Arthur Jensen about the second edition of The Mismeasure of Man. Flynn wrote that "Gould's book evades all of Jensen's best arguments for a genetic component in the black–white IQ gap, by positing that they are dependent on the concept of g as a general intelligence factor. Therefore, Gould believes that if he can discredit g no more need be said. This is manifestly false. Jensen’s arguments would bite no matter whether blacks suffered from a score deficit on one or ten or one hundred factors."[35]
According to psychologist Ian Deary, Gould's claim that there is no relation between brain size and IQ is outdated. Furthermore, he reported that Gould refused to correct this in new editions of the book, even though newly available data were brought to his attention by several researchers.[36]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man