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  •  Read the book before (none / 0)


    saying what you think it says.

    Gould believed strongly in science, but he also understood that politics and bias shape
    science. Particularly in areas like race and gender.

    I read Mismeasure in high school (which probably was before you were born), and I couldn't take IQ and many other tests seriously anymore.

    •  I don't intend to prejudge the book (none / 0)

      I'm just saying that it sounds as if it's identifying problems in people, as you said, and not problems in the scientific method itself.  As such, the questions still aren't condemnable, we just have all the more reason to be open and aware while asking and discussing them.

      Anyway, I really do intend to track down the book.  My reading list is a bit of a deluge, but hopefully I can work it in.

      Though PS - that "probably was before you were born"  remark is totally irrelevant and unnecessary.  Validity and truth of statements has nothing to do with who makes them (e.g. age, gender, whatever else).

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