
Assessing adolescent and adult intelligence
by Alan S Kaufman · first published 1990
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As Alan S. Kaufman wrote in each edition of his textbook Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence (I read the first edition in the early 1990s), what you and I don't know about effective environmental interventions to raise IQ does not at all imply that none existence. It's not valid to argue from…
on “Chimpanzee Intelligence Is Heritable [pdf]” ↗…Angoff, W. H. (1988). The nature-nurture debate, aptitudes, and group differences. American Psychologist, 43, 713-720. Mange, A. & Mange, E. J. (1990). Genetics: Human Aspects. Kaufman, Alan S. (1990). Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence. So any statement in this thread that heritability somehow constrains the expression of g or of IQ is actually conceptually incorrect.
on “What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race” ↗>As Alan S. Kaufman wrote in each edition of his textbook Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence (I read the first edition in the early 1990s), what you and I don't know about effective environmental interventions to raise IQ does not at all imply that none existence. It's not valid to argue from…
on “Chimpanzee Intelligence Is Heritable [pdf]” ↗…Angoff, W. H. (1988). The nature-nurture debate, aptitudes, and group differences. American Psychologist, 43, 713-720. Mange, A. & Mange, E. J. (1990). Genetics: Human Aspects. Kaufman, Alan S. (1990). Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence. So the statement above that heritability somehow constrains the expression of IQ or of consequences of IQ such as occupational success is actually conceptually incorrect. But I appreciate you going…
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