On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 22:13:18 +0100, Colin Cooper
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> ==snip See Stephen Jay Gould's _The Mismeasure of Man_ for more
> > details; note that Thurstone adopted varimax rotations because their
> > results were consistent with *his* pet theories about intelligence.
> Hmm. Gould's book is generally reckoned to be rather partial and not
> particularly accurate - see for example JB Carroll's 'editorial review'
> of the second edition in 'Intelligence' about 4 years ago. (sorry -
> haven't got the exact reference to hand). Comrey & Lee's book is one of
A google search on < Carroll Gould Intelligence > immediately hit
a copy of the article --
http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/psychology/IQ/carroll-gould.html
I liked Gould's book. I know that he offended people by pointing to
gross evidence of racism and sexism in 'scientific reports.' But he
has (I think) offended Carroll in a more subtle way. Gould is
certainly partial to ideas that Carroll is not receptive to; I think
that is what underlies this critique.
After Google-ing Carroll, I see that he is a long-time researcher in
"intelligence." To me, it seems that Gould is in touch with the newer
stream of hypotheses about intelligence -- ideas that tend to
invalidate the basic structures of old-line theorists like Carroll.
In the article, Carroll eventually seems to express high
enthusiasm for 'new techniques' (compared to what
Gould made use of) in factor analysis. I can say,
my own experience and reading has not led me to the same
enthusiasm. Am I missing something?
> the better introductions - Loehlin 'latent variable Models' is good if
> you're coming to it from a structural equation modelling background.
>
> Colin Cooper
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