Race, IQ and Jensen
Author : James Robert Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780710006516
Intelligence, Race, And Genetics
Author : Frank Miele
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0786747617
Book Description
In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor), racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests, and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness, Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy, such as Affirmative Action.“Jensenism,” the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences, has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless, Intelligence, Race, and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions.
In the Know
Author : Russell T. Warne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108602215
Book Description
Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate for other cultures. These are some of the statements about intelligence that are common in the media and in popular culture. But none of them are true. In the Know is a tour of the most common incorrect beliefs about intelligence and IQ. Written in a fantastically engaging way, each chapter is dedicated to correcting a misconception and explains the real science behind intelligence. Controversies related to IQ will wither away in the face of the facts, leaving readers with a clear understanding about the truth of intelligence.
Educability and Group Differences
Author : Arthur Robert Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415678560
Book Description
Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article 'How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?'. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen's ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.
Intelligence, Genes, and Success
Author : Bernie Devlin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 1997-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387949864
Book Description
A scientific response to the best-selling The Bell Curve which set off a hailstorm of controversy upon its publication in 1994. Much of the public reaction to the book was polemic and failed to analyse the details of the science and validity of the statistical arguments underlying the books conclusion. Here, at last, social scientists and statisticians reply to The Bell Curve and its conclusions about IQ, genetics and social outcomes.
Race and IQ
Author : the late Ashley Montagu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199728828
Book Description
Ashley Montagu, who first attacked the term "race" as a usable concept in his acclaimed work, Man's Most Dangerous Myth , offers here a devastating rebuttal to those who would claim any link between race and intelligence. In now classic essays, this thought-provoking volume critically examines the terms "race" and "IQ" and their applications in scientific discourse. The twenty-four contributors--including such eminent thinkers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, W.F. Bodmer, and Jerome Kagan--draw on fields that range from biology and genetics to psychology, anthropology, and education. What emerges in piece after piece is a deep skepticism about the scientific validity of intelligence tests, especially as applied to evaluating innate intelligence, if only because scientists still cannot distinguish between genetic and environmental contributions to the development of the human mind. Five new essays have been included that specifically address the claims made in the recent, highly controversial book, The Bell Curve. Must reading for anyone interested in racism and education in America, Race and IQ is a brilliantly lucid exploration of the boundary line between race and intelligence.
Intelligence and how to Get it
Author : Richard E. Nisbett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393065053
Book Description
Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced : the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description.
Bias in Mental Testing
Author : Arthur Robert Jensen
Publisher :
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
Illuminating detailed methods for assessing bias in commonly used I.Q., aptitude, and achievement tests, Jensen argues that standardized tests are not biased against Englishspeaking minority groups and describes the uses of such tests in education and employment.
The G Factor
Author : Arthur R. Jensen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
However, Jensen does not draw back from its most controversial conclusions - that the average differences in IQ and other abilities found between sexes and racial groups have a substantial hereditary component, and that these differences have important societal consequences.
The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2006-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393340406
Book Description
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
