James mckeen cattell and eugenics define
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The eugenics of universities
The theme for this column would be different, but chance has the ability to suddenly change the positions of the pieces, making associations between new information and that lost in the folders on the different “pen drives”. As a preamble, I recall the use of words such as poor thing, judgment or denigration and their prejudiced and discriminatory origins. They lost their original meanings over time. Many who use them may not remember these meanings, but it is always good to be aware and, therefore, eliminate them from their vocabulary. There is a not-remote possibility that they will once again want to say exactly what they originally wanted to say, in a literal or adapted form. And this can happen without us realizing it, as is perhaps the case with certain lists and orderings.
The chance was the unexpected meeting with my friend Flávio Ferreira, who showed me some titles of old articles. One attracted the most attention and is the origin of the a
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James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist and educator (1860–1944)
James McKeen Cattell | |
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| Born | (1860-05-25)May 25, 1860 Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1944(1944-01-20) (aged 83) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Lafayette College (BA, MA) University of Leipzig (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology, psychometrics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Pennsylvania Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Doctoral students | Walter Dearborn Harry L. Hollingworth Shepherd Ivory Franz Edward Thorndike Edward Kellog Strong Jr. John Dashiell |
| Spouse | Josephine Owen (m. 1888) |
| Children | 7, including Psyche |
| Father | William Cassady Cattell |
James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 – January 20, 1944) was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a long-time edit
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Over the course of writing a book chapter, I’ve come up with a delightful little nugget: some of the earliest rankings of universities originated in the Eugenics movement.
The story starts with Francis Galton. A first cousin to Charles Darwin, Galton was the uppfinnare of the weather map, standard deviation, the regression line (and the explanation of regression towards the mean), fingerprinting, and composite photography. In other words, pretty much your textbook definition of a genius.
At some point (some believe it was after reading On the Origin of Species), Galton came to believe that genius is born, not made. And so in 1869, he wrote a book called Hereditary Genius in which, using biographical dictionaries called “Men of Our Time” (published by Routledge, no less), he traced back “eminent men” to see if they had eminent fathers or grandfathers. Eventually, he concluded that they did. This led him into a lifelong study of heredity. In 1874, Galton published British M