Has anyone challenged the more basic accusation that there was in fact no
such family?
At 7:52 AM -0600 3/30/99, Dave Johnson wrote:
>On 27 Mar 99, at 23:29, Linda M. Woolf wrote:
>
>>
>> Goddard also retouched the photographs
>> to make the Kallikaks appear mentally retarded for his book The
>> Kallikak Family.
>
>The notion that Goddard *intentionally* retouched the photos to make the
>Kallikaks appear more "feeble-minded" has not gone unchallenged. See
>the following for some responses to this controversy:
>
> Fancher, R. E. (1987). Henry Goddard and The Kallikak Family
>photographs: "Conscious skulduggery" or "Whig history"? American
>Psychologist, 42 585-590.
>
> Kral, M. J. (1988). More on Goddard and the Kallikak family
>photographs. American Psychologist, 43, 745-746.
>
> Glenn, S. S., & Ellis, J. (1988). Do the Kallikaks look "menacing"
>or "retarded?"
>American Psychologist, 43, 742-743.
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