here is a central warning that runs throughout Steven Jay Gould's Book, The Mismeasure of Man. Gould alerts the reader to his concerns about the objectivity of science and the role that the scientist has in the corroboration of empirical findings for his or her theory or research program. Gould argues that the science underlying the hereditarian school of intelligence is flawed in that the research and findings are result of a priori convictions of the researchers, not of objective inquir y into the nature of human intelligence. Accompanying the prime fallacy of a priori science are the additional errors of reification, which leads to circular reasoning, and mismatched logic that hereditarians employ while arguing their theories. Throughout
