Review of Sorry But You're Wrong About It

Abstract

Reviews the book, Sorry But You're Wrong About It by Albert Edward Wiggam (see record 1932-00392-000 ). Once in a proverbial dog's age a reviewer puts down a book with the exclamation, "I wish I had written that, myself". I wish I had written this book because it does excellently one of the things that I am firmly convinced very much ought to be done. It aims to convince "Mr. Manstreet"--and this gentleman is not an untutored, eighth-grade graduate with a mental age of twelve, but a host of "lawyers, doctors, preachers, business men, editors, writers, poets, artists, college professors, as well as traveling salesmen, skilled mechanics, and small business men"--that popular beliefs in the fields of psychology and biology are almost uniformly wrong, that these beliefs do incalculable damage, and that their prevalence is due to the failure of even seemingly well-trained persons to do their thinking by the analytical methods of science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)