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000458437 1001_ $$aGould, Stephen Jay.
000458437 24510 $$aFull house$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin /$$cStepehn Jay Gould.
000458437 250__ $$a1st Harvard University Press ed.
000458437 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2011.
000458437 300__ $$a1 online resource (244 p.) :$$bill.
000458437 500__ $$aOriginally published: New York : Harmony Books, c1996.
000458437 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000458437 5050_ $$apt. 1. How shall we read and spot a trend? -- pt. 2. Death and horses : two cases for the primacy of variation -- pt. 3. The model batter : extinction of 0.400 hitting and the improvement of baseball -- pt. 4. The modal bacter : why progress does not rule the history of life.
000458437 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000458437 520__ $$aFull House presents the truth about progress, evolution and excellence, and a different way to look at the phenomenon of trends. We tend to see the world in terms of bad trends--why this nation going to pot vis-à-vis increasing criminal behavior and loosening moral fiber--and good trends better ethnic in urban areas, better transportation. We have always interpreted trends as things or entities moving in a definite direction-up or down-but Gould identifies this mode of interpretation as a bias that needs correcting. The focus here is on the nature of excellence and the misperception that progress is inevitable. In Full House, Stephen Jay Gould examines how the misinterpretation of data and trends results in bad science and bad social policy.
000458437 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
000458437 650_0 $$aEvolution (Biology)
000458437 650_0 $$aNatural history.
000458437 650_0 $$aExcellence.
000458437 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aGould, Stephen Jay.$$tFull house.$$b1st Harvard University Press ed.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674061613$$w(DLC) 2011017924$$w(OCoLC)709670353
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