[ExI] Literary Criticism Technique

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Sun Jul 20 01:48:28 UTC 2008


"Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote,
> Charles Murray book "Human Achievement" is not only impressive
> and amazing for the descriptions of human history and achievement
> it discloses, but also for his methodology. But see the reviews at
> Amazon or somewhere for that.

Charles Murray's methodologies have always been unscientific and 
controversial.  He went through Eurocentric reference books, counted the 
numbers of entries and pages devoted to each historical figure, and 
concluded that Europeans contributed the most to human history.  I wouldn't 
take any of his "methodologies" seriously.  His statistical "methods" are 
likewise suspect.  None of his research seems to derive from a truly neutral 
investigative stance intended to meaure reality.  Instead, he always seems 
to have a pre-determined goal for he contrives methodologies and statistics 
to support.

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Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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