One interesting recent development is the possibility that Gould himself distorted the data that he reported in his book. Instead, the Army Beta was a well-designed test by the standards of the time, and all evidence indicates that it measured intelligence a century ago and can, to some extent, do so today. By consulting the historical record and conducting a pre-registered replication of Gould’s administration of the test to a sample of college students, we show that Gould mischaracterized the Army Beta in a number of ways.
We evaluated Gould’s arguments that the Army Beta (a) had inappropriate content, (b) had unsuitable administration conditions, (c) suffered from short time limits, and (d) could not have measured intelligence. In this article, we investigate a section of The Mismeasure of Man in which Gould evaluated the Army Beta intelligence test for illiterate American draftees in World War I.
To show the potential consequences of this, Gould used examples from the early days of psychometrics and allied fields, arguing that inappropriate assumptions and an elitist desire to rank individuals and/or groups produced incorrect results. OL473565W Page_number_confidence 92.11 Pages 458 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220408161156 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 369 Scandate 20220407020021 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780613181303 Tts_version 4.In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould argued that the preconceived beliefs and biases of scientists influence their methods and conclusions. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:13:22 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40429415 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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