The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

CONTENTS 13

Critique of The Bell Curve 367

The Bell Curvv. 367

Disingenuoumess of content

Disingenuousness^of argument

Disingenuousness ofprogram

Ghosts of Bell Curves pasX 379

Three Centuries' Perspectives on Race

and Racism . 391

Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking^ 391

Racial geometry, 401

The moral state of Tahiti—and of Darwin,

Bibliography

Index

425

433

Oblique axes and second-order g

Thurstone on the uses of factor analysis

Epilogue: Arthur Jensen and the resurrection of

Spearman's g, 347

A final thought, 350

7. A Positive Conclusion 357

Debunking as positive science, 351

Learning by debunking, 352

Biology and human nature, 354

Epilogue 365