IntelligenceStuart Ritchie
Intelligence
by Stuart Ritchie · first published 2015
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Why HN recommends it
Accessible overview of modern intelligence research, covering how reliable and valid IQ tests are and how intelligence relates to important outcomes; a concise, current summary for readers forming opinions.
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Are you familiar with modern intelligence research? IQ test is reliable (get the same score when you test multiple times) and valid (correlate with things we actually care about, not just being good at solving IQ test problems). Intelligence:…
on “A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses” ↗…criticisms of that work. If you are interested in knowing about the thing itself, and not just criticisms of the thing, I invite you to pick up, for example, Stuart Ritchie's book https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritc... And before you get upset about the title, the book is from a survey series called "All That Matters". It's not claiming that _intelligence_ is "all that matters".
on “Taleb is wrong about IQ (2019)” ↗I would like to recommend a book to you. It is Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie. I would recommend reading it before forming strong opinions on this topic.
on “In Towns Already Hit by Factory Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs” ↗Two comments: - Lay people seem to have a very good intuition about the actual heritability of intelligence (taken to assess the genetic and environmental determinants of intelligence). [0] - If you'd like to read an up-to-date and thorough literature review on human intelligence, I highly recommend "Intelligence:…
on “Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleading view of intelligence” ↗Genetics is a major driver of intelligence, and more intelligent people tend to earn more money. Here's a book that covers the basics of what we know about intelligence and its correlation with life outcomes: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritc...
on “Study links omega-3s to improved brain structure, cognition at midlife” ↗Yes, a ton. I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritc...
on “Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI” ↗…can’t get to a world class level in anything, whether they specialise early or not. I’d be more inclined to read K. Anders Ericsson’s book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Stuart Ritchie’s Intelligence: All That Matters, or both. For most areas of human expertise we don’t have the kind of knowledge about what to do and why, or the coaching infrastructure for youth prodigy breeding grounds like sports…
on “Learning Chess at 40 (2016)” ↗Those are still accurate. There's a short book by Stuart Ritchie called "Intelligence: All That Matters" that is a good summary of contemporary psychological understanding of IQ.
on “Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests” ↗…word on the matter that this blog post portrays it to be. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-growt... http://www.amren.com/news/2014/04/yes-iq-really-matters/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Rit... Ironically, focus on a growth mindset may actually distract people from doing things that actually do have reproducible research showing they lead to more mental horsepower…
on “Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers” ↗