Born to Rebel and Its Critics.
Frederic Townsend's critique of Born to Rebel (Sulloway, 1996) is based on an unfortunate pattern of misrepresentation and faulty empirical methods. First, the historical data in Born to Rebel are neither unrepresentative nor undisclosed. The were compiled with the help of 110 expert raters, who val...
| Publicado en: | Politics & the Life Sciences Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 181 - 203 |
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Association for Politics & the Life Sciences
September 2000
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