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Message: <blockquote data-quote="interwyrm" data-source="post: 3607633" data-attributes="member: 31913">I actually read (most) of his book, The Mismeasure of Man. S'mon is kind of right. It seems like the major basis for Gould's ideas is a rationalization based on disgust at the idea that two populations could have measureably different intelligences. It's not exactly Marxist, but I think what S'mon is trying to get at it is that Gould refuses to acknowledge that people have different capabilities and that those capabilities can be measured in some way.If I remember right, the two major complaints were that using a single factor to measure intelligence (g) is insufficient, and that tests are inherently culture-biased.As for animals and little kids, I read somewhere that Koko the Gorilla had an IQ tested somewhere in the 70s. There are quite a bit of people on EnWorld who are past the same percentile on the other side. I'm surprised Mensa would allow a test given to a two year old. There are tests for babies, but they are notoriously inaccurate. The baby tests, at least, involve measuring how long a baby pays attention to a new object. The less time, the higher IQ.</blockquote>