Stephen Jay Gould - Women's Brains

It has long been believed that measuring a human skull for a long time can determine the size of the brain inside the skull and discover human intelligence. In this way, these people know that women are always mentally inferior because their skulls (and therefore their brains) are smaller than men. This idea was invented by Paul Broca and further carried out people learned from Broca over time. However, Steven Jay Gould broke the discovery of Broka and his students through his work "Female Brain". With a formal, serious tone, he details the comments of those who believe in Broca 's theory and then continues to explain the ways these comments and research are not accurate enough to determine the size of the skull. In addition, he also discussed how this women's brain theory is extended to other groups faced discrimination such as black men. Mr. Gould immediately announced the disagreement with broker's theory that the size of the skull is equivalent to the size of the brain, equivalent to intelligence and providing sufficient evidence to support his view. Mr. Gould did not specifically point out the audience, but it is easy to think that he is directing his work towards those who believe in broker's theory.

Mr. Gould's view is easily recognized in that scientific and medical research can be used to support the fact that the size of the skull, in particular, is not the same as intelligence. In addition, the way of writing Gould has clarified those who read differences in his opinion and has formed his own views from a wide list of facts. But sometimes a short citation from a student from Broca and Broca makes it difficult for him to follow the subject when he discusses Mary Montessori and seems to be turning slightly around the end of the topic did. But in general, the examples and evidence he used denied these examples, it made them well educated and may help other people start to doubt Broka.

Stephen Jay Gould 's 1980 paper "Women Brain" reflects a "scientific" decision on women' s inferiority complex and casts doubt on the science behind the study. The absurdity of scientific conclusion may argue that it may be based on the premise of estimating women's inferiority before testing. Especially in the evaluation of intelligence by measuring size sizes from the mid-18th century to the mid-1990s, the relevance between test group size, height and weight was ignored. It should have interchanged his argument by explaining that the woman's brain's cranial circumference is small and providing facts, logic, and reasoning to avoid judging women's mental retardation for men.

Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941 and died on May 20, 2002 at the age of 60. Gould is a paleontologist and an evolutionary biologist. He taught at Harvard University and New York University and is writing articles about popular scientific journals. In 1980 he wrote "Female Brain" as part of his book "Panda's Thumb". I used a multiple regression. This is a method that enables you to evaluate the influence of height and age on brain size at the same time. Analysis of female data revealed that the average height and age of men was 1212 grams for female brains. Due to height and age correction, the difference in Broka's measurements decreased 181 grams, more than a third, to 113 grams. "

In this witty criticism of bad science, Harvard scholar Steven Jay Gould began to cut through the concept of biological determinism. Gould thinks that suspicious measurements of human intelligence such as skull size and IQ have been used to justify racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and class stratification for hundreds of years I will. According to Mr. Gould, respected sociologists and psychologists are using counterfeit or unstable data to support the belief that Westerners tend to dominate the world genetically. This book evoked political and scientific criticism, especially from social scientists. They are angry at over-simplifying and misuse of their work.