![]() ![]() " (28).įinally, Gould explains that he is not a professional debunker, or one who gets pleasure out of tearing down the edifice of biological determinism without replacing it with another classification scheme. 'a theory of limits.' It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should be and must be. As Gould states, "biological determinism is. ![]() The essential tragedy of such thinking is that biological determinist arguments with regard to IQ are limiting to the individual. Long shrouded in pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo, IQ testing has been used to culturally oppress the mental underdogs who occupy the lower rungs of the social ladder. The primary focus of The Mismeasure of Man is intelligence testing. ![]() In order for scientists to obtain this all essential objectivity, he shows that they must first "shuck the constraints of their culture, and view the world as it really is" (21). As a side argument, Gould attempts to show that science is objective only if performed properly, like anything else. Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man seeks to demonstrate both the scientific weaknesses and political contexts of biological determinist arguments. ![]()
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