Preston Maness wants to read Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one …
This was recommended in revolutionaryth0t's video essay on normality:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6oUHaLCc_U
I'd like to get around to it eventually. In particular, I wonder if it has any historical investigation of the human tendency to measure a distribution, and yet walk away from the result of that measurement thinking instead "I have found a point."