The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT of environment, and the test scores may provide just another (and more imperfect) measure of the sa ...

308 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Hearnshaw comments (1979, p. 30): "Inadequate reporting and incautious conclusions mark this first inc ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT discussed Alfred Binet's two daughters, noted that their father had been disinclined to connect phy ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN ward Child (1937), written at the height of his powers and before his descent into conscious fraud. Backwa ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT tion that a trait represents nature unaffected by nurture does not guarantee its ineluctable state. ...

3 / 2 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN grass, not "even in a Council park," 64 percent had never seen a train, and 98 percent had never see ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 3' 3 delinquents may not reflect inherited ability because they rebel against taking the tests: For ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN clearly an entity than intelligence, and probably more subject to definite and specifiable hereditary infl ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT "changes in the relative fertility of its leading members or its lead- ing classes" (1962, p. 49). ...

3 i^6 THE MISMEASURK O F M A N a general factor common to all tests and a specific factor peculiar to that test alone. He denied ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT jections. He identified as group factors the clusters of positive and negative projections themselv ...

3* 8 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Moreover, Burt accepted and greatly elaborated Spearman's views on the differential innateness of lev ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT He spoke with eloquence about this error of thought: The ordinary mind loves to reduce patterns to ...

320 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Lest one be tempted to regard these later statements as a shift in belief from the caution of a schola ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 32 I One needn't, from these examples, infer Burt's belief in a lit- eral, higher reality: perhaps ...

322 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN mind" may have real existence as modes of truly universal thought. Burt managed to espouse three contr ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT principles: first (the theme of this chapter) that general intelligence is a single, measurable ent ...

324 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN reports of 1926 and 1931, the Spens report of 1938, the Norwood report of 1943, and the Board of Educa ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 325 widely in early life and first stabilized at about age eleven. Spear- man wrote in 1927 (p. 367 ...

326 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN were not included in his plan for the preservation of British great- ness. Of them, he wrote (1959, p. ...