Re: (Fwd) Re: guidelines/ethics

QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:37:56 -0500


<< evolutionary psychology, sociology, psychology, gender studies,
> etc. based on the realization that a lot of the prevailing paradigms
> were skewed to the biases of the male researchers. This isn't to

> Maybe these "sciences" weren't that scientific, after all. Strong
operator signature is a sign of sloppy experimentation, if not dire fraud.
Good science is operator-neutral, which should be provable in a
double-blind. >>

For anyone interested in this subject, I just finished Steven Jay Gould's
book
"THE MISMEASURE OF MAN".

Although I am also not sure he isnt also biased ; - )...
It is really amazing just what some "respected scientists" have come up with
when they are trying to validate the cultural status quo.

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