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Kinds Come First - Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures (Hardcover)
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Kinds Come First - Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological
measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the
human subject. In Kinds Come First, the distinguished psychologist
Jerome Kagan argues that-contrary to the common assumption-age,
gender, social class, and ethnicity affect the outcomes of
psychological measures, and he questions the popular practice that
uses statistical procedures to remove the effects of these
categories to confirm a favored predictor-outcome relation. The
idea that psychological measures have meanings that transcend the
kinds of subjects, Kagan writes, reflects a premature hope of
discovering broadly generalizable conclusions. In Kinds Come First,
Kagan hopes to persuade investigators otherwise. Kagan examines the
unique properties of the four categories, making the case that life
stage, gender, class, and ethnicity affect psychological measures
in complex, nontrivial ways. He discusses the relevance of a
person's developmental stage to many outcomes, focusing on the
interval from five to twelve months, when working memory and the
ability to relate the past to the present expands. He cites
evidence suggesting that a person's gender, class of rearing, and
ethnicity, within a particular society, are better predictors of
health, arrest record, cognitive skills, and current life
satisfaction than either their genomes or answers to a personality
questionnaire. Finally, Kagan argues, the biological properties
that are more common in one gender, class, or ethnic group, are not
a defensible basis for restricting access to an educational
program, vocation, or position of authority. A society can ignore
such differences in order to honor an ethical imperative for
equality without incurring serious costs.
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