人类的误测
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould、Joandomènec Ros、Ricardo Pochtar、Antonio Desmonts · 初版 1981 年
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为什么值得读
- 揭示利用所谓智商测试对人类进行排名的不可靠性
- 犀利剖析将智力衡量手段滥用于政治目的的历史
- 彻底动摇并重构读者对生物决定论与分类的认知
审视了科学界用于测量智力的测试手段的历史及其内在缺陷。
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针对人类这种喜欢给彼此分类和排资论辈的倾向，开山之作当属 Stephen Jay Gould 的《The Mismeasure of Man》https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man。有机会一定要读读。它在我读过的十本最重要的书单上，彻底改变了我的思维方式……
The seminal work on this tendency we humans have to classify and rank each other is Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man If you have a chance, it's worth a read. It's on my list of the top ten most important books I've ever read and it permanently altered the way I think…
……提到的那些都是 Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. 搞的。这人经常给《华尔街日报》写专栏——我猜大概是因为《Nature》和《Science》版面太挤，没地方登他的成果吧。Stephen Jay Gould 写的《The Mismeasure of Man》第二版在这个话题上是本好书。保守派对 Gould 这本书的过激反应，就像进步派对《The Bell Curve》的过激反应一样歇斯底里。这也说明了……
…mentioned were done by Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. He's someone who writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal - I guess Nature and Science are too full and his work crowded into there. The second edition of the Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould is a good book on this topic. There was a hysterical conservative reaction to Gould's book just as there was a hysterical progressive reaction to the Bell Curve. Which shows this…
……大学时，我记得我们都把《The Bell Curve》当笑话看。它根本算不上经典的科学读物。想找批评反驳的资料有成千上万个切入点，但你可以先从 Gould 的《The Mismeasure of Man》看起。
…University, I remember we laughed at "The Bell Curve". It wasn't considered classic scientific reading. There are a million places to start if you want to find a critique, but you can start with Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man".
……按智力给人划分等级。首先，智力是一个非常糟糕的社会衡量指标——它既不可靠，又无数次被政治目的滥用，而且人类对它本身就缺乏足够理解。去读读 Stephen Jay Gould 的《The Mismeasure of Man》就知道为什么了。其次，就算智商测试是可靠的，按智商给人排座次在政治上也站不住脚——我是说，至少不能比我们现在做得更过分。在公开场合更是不行……
…ranking people by intelligence. First, intelligence is a very poor social measure -- it's an unreliable gauge, it has been abused countless times for political ends, and it's not well understood. Read "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould to find out why. Second, even if IQ testing were reliable, it would still be politically unacceptable to rank people by IQ -- I mean, more than we already do. Certainly not in public…
好文章。如果认同 James Damore 观点的人有兴趣了解为什么这些论调会被许多人直接嗤之以鼻，我推荐去读读 Stephen Jay Gould 的《The Mismeasure of Man》。生物决定论有一个致命缺陷……那就是人群分组。
Great article. If anyone who agrees with James Damore's point is motivated to see the reason these arguments are summarily dismissed by many, I recommend reading "the mismeasure of man", by Stephen Jay Gould. The idea of biological determinism has one fatal flaw... the grouping.
那位是 Stephen Jay Gould，我刚重温了《The Mismeasure of Man》，这书是对“智力由天生宿命决定”这种本质主义观念的极佳疫苗。
That is Stephen Jay Gould and I just reread the Mismeasure of Man, an excellent inoculation against essentialist beliefs about the incarnation of intelligence.