Kinds Come First: Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures

by Jerome Kagan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042932
• ISBN13: 9780262042932
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"