The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT theories of intelligence "oligarchic." Second, the positive correla- tions might reduce to a single ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN respects, their answers are already foreshadowed; and every- where, they are rendered susceptible of event ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 289 Spearman argued that tetrad differences of zero imply the exist- ence of a single general facto ...

LL LW TL TW LL 1. 0 LW 0.80 1. 0 TL 0.60 0.48 1. 0 TW 0.30 0.24 0.1 8 1. 0 Tetrad difference: 0.60 x 0.24 -0.48x0.30 0.144-0.144 ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 297 g are the best surrogates for general intelligence, while tests with low ^-loadings (and high s ...

(^292) THE MISMEASURE OF MAN The conventional school subjects, insofar as they reflect apti- tude rather than the simple acquisi ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT Wifhg as a quantified, fundamental particle, psychology could take its rightful place among the rea ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN testing lay with his own theory of a single g underlying all cognitive activity. IQ tests worked because, ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT (^2 95) prophesied the union of these two great traditions in mental test- ing: "Each of these two ...

(^296) THE MISMEASURE OF MAN found a single abstract factor underlying all performance. Nor could he achieve adequate satisfacti ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT ing the particular kind of operation. These neural groups would thus function as alternative "engin ...

2Q 8 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN cannot be attributed to "decrease in the supply of the general psy- cho-physiological energy," but mu ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT inite genes for catatonic, deluded, manic, cognitive, and constitu- tional depression because his f ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Spearman on the inheritance of g Two of Spearman's primary claims appear in most hereditarian theories of ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 3 OI On the average of all the tests, the colored were about two years behind the white; their infe ...

302 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN had vitally important practical consequences in shaping the recent very stringent American laws as to ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 3° 3 Cyril Burt and the hereditarian synthesis The source of Burt's uncompromising hereditarianism ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN wielded it as such an effective political tool. The combination of hereditarian bias with a reification of ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT the most important of all," but he also gives away his answer in stating why we should be so concer ...

(^306) THE MIS MEASURE OF MAN acquired as a function of advantages in home and schooling? Burt gave four arguments for discounti ...