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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Serres
(b) Blumenbach
(c) Broca
(d) Gould

2. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.
(a) microcosm expert
(b) splitter
(c) striker
(d) species expert

3. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Blacks
(b) Chinese
(c) Whites
(d) Indians

4. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?
(a) Euthyphro
(b) Apology
(c) Republic
(d) Phaedo

5. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) racial ranking
(b) scientists in general
(c) medical findings
(d) scientific errors

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

2. Burt seemed to have increased his sample of patients from fewer then 20 to more than ________ in a number of publications. This irregularity began the undoing of his work's findings.

3. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.

4. What did Galton measure in order to ascertain the intelligence of people?

5. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.

(see the answer key)

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