Intelligence and how to get it
by Richard E. Nisbett · first published 2009
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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.
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"Richard Nisbett cites each of these groups in his superb recent book, “Intelligence and How to Get It.” Dr. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, argues that what we think of as intelligence is quite malleable and owes little or nothing to genetics." Stephen Pinker argued…
on “Rising Above I.Q.” ↗It looks like several journalists need to read the new book Intelligence and How to Get It by Richard E. Nisbett, http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/winter09/006505.htm which I am reading just now. Nisbett reviews the best recent literature on IQ testing and what it means, and punches holes…
on “Children of older fathers have lower IQs” ↗…raw scores on IQ tests over time in most countries of the world, resulting in the need to renorm IQ tests every half generation or so. All these data and more can be found cited to primary sources in Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count by Richard E. Nisbett, http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-How-Get-Schools-Cultures/... a recently published book that is well worth a read.
on “SAT Scores and Family Income: The least surprising correlation of all time” ↗This article is both is both fallacious and intellectualy dishonest. Richard Nisbett cites each of these groups in his superb recent book, “Intelligence and How to Get It.” Dr. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, argues that what we think of as intelligence is quite malleable and owes little or nothing to genetics. Nisbett actually writes,…
on “Rising Above I.Q.” ↗…Nisbett's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Nisbett) works; The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Thought) and Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_and_How_to_Get_It) for some insights.
on “The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long?” ↗…make spectacular, harmful cognitive errors, because IQ tests don't tap important human cognitive abilities that Stanovich sums up as "rationality." "Despite some naysayers (think of Richard E. Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count, published this year by Norton)," Notice the total absence of response to Nisbett's recent book. I'm reading it, and I appreciate Nisbett's reexamination of primary research…
on “Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius” ↗