Full house [electronic resource] : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin / Stepehn Jay Gould.
2011
QH366.2 .G6593 2011eb
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Full house [electronic resource] : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin / Stepehn Jay Gould.
Author
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Edition
1st Harvard University Press ed.
ISBN
9780674063396 (electronic book)
9780674061613
9780674061613
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (244 p.) : ill.
Call Number
QH366.2 .G6593 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
508
Summary
Full 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.
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Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, c1996.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
pt. 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.
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.