What may be even sadder is that he really did understand the science.
On the topic of IQ, Stephen Jay Gould was a far-Left ideologue -- a charlatan, a liar, and a bully who never understood the basic science. His book 'The mismeasure of man' is still required reading in many universities.https://twitter.com/Quillette/status/1108258325542494208 …
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He never understood hierarchical factor analysis, or the g factor. Which are the heart of intelligence research.
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Pot. Kettle.
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Developmental systems theory. Incoherent mess that ignores behavior genetics and has never yielded a replicable empirical insight.
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To me, a lesson on how even great scientists can fall prey to ideological bias
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He was a great writer, but was he ever a great scientist? What did he discover, exactly?
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Oh c’mon, Gould was not a charlatan even if his book is biased. Overusing that word cheapens it and makes people who use it look bad.
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I don't use the word charlatan lightly. Gould was a charlatan on IQ.
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He was praised and mandatory reading in anthropology. Scholars like Huntington were demonized in the cultural classes where as Edward Said was elevated
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Evopsych also got a lot of criticism as a racist field looking to bring back old tropes. Ita what made me look more into Evopsych
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