Using the guys own numbers, when you separated out the sexes, African males were at the top, and African females at the bottom in skull size (which was used as a proxy for intelligence).
No, Gould didn't remeasure the skulls volumetric capacity - he just pointed out that if you separate out the sexes the guys entire argument evaporates - or suggests that African men are naturally the top in intelligence because they have (had) larger skulls.
For example - the “English” sample was 100% male. Naturally when compared to samples that included a high proportion of females (the African sample) they had larger skulls. But if you compared only the English male sample with the African male sample - the Africans had larger skulls - and by the guys own premise - were therefore more intelligent.
If that was Morton's premise. This seems to be saying otherwise.
No one with even half a brain needed Gould to point that out.
“The Smithsonian Institution has cut off all public access to a collection of nude photographs taken of generations of college students, some of whom went on to become leaders in American culture and government.
The pictures at first were taken to study posture. Later they were made by a researcher examining what he believed to be a relationship between body shape and intelligence.
All freshmen here at Yale and at some of the other colleges and universities involved were required to pose in the nude. Among those who were presumably subject to the practice are George Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton, but it is not known whether their photos ever wound up at the Smithsonian, which, although having made its collection of the pictures available to researchers, has never displayed them.”
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“The frontal and profile “posture” photos were taken beginning in the early 1900’s as part of physical education classes, because poise and balance were considered an integral part of health.
Later, other photographs were taken by W. H. Sheldon, a researcher who believed that there was a relationship between body shape and intelligence and other traits.
Mr. Sheldon has since died, and his work has long been dismissed by most scientists as quackery. But it was apparently respected from the 1940’s through the 1960’s, because highly regarded colleges like Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, Princeton, Vassar and Swarthmore allowed him access to their students.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/21/us/nude-photos-are-sealed-at-smithsonian.html