Re:Is there a general factor of intelligence?
by xyzzyz on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:54PM
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Morton was wrong on many counts, to be sure, just as any scientist worth of salt must be. However, he was not wrong on the very thing Gould accused him of, which was ideologically based fudging of data, something that Gould was in fact guilty himself.
Re:Is there a general factor of intelligence?
by ZeroGravitas on Friday March 25, 2022 @02:03PM
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He did ideologically fudge his data, though, to the point that he could, incorrectly, make the claim that he already believed, but that wasn't actually there in the data.
Gould's point was about inadvertant bias in science and he was correct in this case.
Morton was wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_George_Morton
It's great that you found some super specific thing where his wrong answer isn't provably the result of fudging of numbers, but he's still wrong for various reasons. And someone else measured other skulls at roughly same time and came to the correct conclusion that you couldn't really make any such claim based on the data they had.