mismeasure

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1. mismeasure - Noun

2. mismeasure - Verb

Meaning

To measure or estimate incorrectly.

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In a 1982 review of The Mismeasure of Man, Jensen gives point-by-point rebuttals to much of Gould's critique, including Gould's treatment of heritability, the "reification" of g, and the use of Thurstone's analysis. Source: Internet

Psychologist Hans Eysenck wrote that The Mismeasure of Man is a book that presents "a paleontologist 's distorted view of what psychologists think, untutored in even the most elementary facts of the science." Source: Internet

Gould, S.J. (1996) "The Mismeasure of Man", Introduction to the Revised Edition Wilson and his supporters counter the intellectual link by denying that Wilson had a political agenda, still less a right-wing one. Source: Internet

Similarly, Stephen J. Gould finds three main problems with intelligence testing, in his book The Mismeasure of Man that relate to Mead's view of the problem of determining whether there are indeed racial differences in intelligence. Source: Internet

%20Stephen%20Jay%20Gould%20-%20The%20Mismeasure%20of%20Man%20(1981)%20-%20Revised%20edition%20-%20missing%20last%20page.pdf The Mismeasure of Man: Revised and Expanded Edition. Source: Internet

Davis also criticized the popular-press and the literary-journal book reviews of The Mismeasure of Man as generally approbatory; whereas, most scientific-journal book reviews were generally critical. Source: Internet

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