Temperature Is What a Thermometer Measures
04/09/2017
Siberian Fox tweets a passage from Arthur Jensen’s 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing that offered an amusing historic parallel to Stephen Jay Gould’s upcoming 1981 bestseller The Mismeasure of Man.
17th Century Stephen Jay Gould-type obscurantists scoffed at Galileo inventing the thermometer as reifying the dubious concept of “temperature.”