Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book treats "arguments about group differences in the reality of America," said Gould, who wrote The Mismeasure of Man. "You can't pretend that somehow has nothing to do with race...
...Gould said he took issue not only with Murray's"post-Romantic" arguments about the future ofAmerica, but with The Bell Curve's basicassumptions as well...
...book] is based on a paradox: that trueequality of opportunity would stratify us worsethan ever," Gould said...
...Gould said he found three of the book's mainarguments--that intelligence is easily definable,that it can be assigned a number and that it isnot subject to significant change--down-rightwrong. The argument that it is heritable may becorrect but is often misinterpreted, Gould said...
...Gould and Murray also clashed over whether todiscuss intelligence on an individual or grouplevel...