The most fundamental problem is defining multiculturalism. Frisby (2013) described four types of multiculturalism that are often present in American culture: Boutique, Kumbayah, Light-and-Fluffy, and Bean-Counting Multiculturalism. Each of these seems like “multiculturalism,” but is actually consists of merely “going through the motions,” often unthinkingly.
Today is the release date for the second edition of my statistics textbook, Statistics for the Social Sciences: A General Linear Model Approach. I have previously blogged about the changes that make the book better than the first edition. Statistics for the Social Sciences remains the only undergraduate textbook that teaches students statistics through the…
James Flynn, a moral philosopher who made major scientific contributions to intelligence research, passed away on Friday, December 11, 2020. His passing sparked many tributes to him, some of which I have compiled here. Full-length Tributes James Thompson (emeritus at University College London) was the first to write a public tribute. You can read it…
The most important name in intelligence research in the second half of the 20th century is educational psychologist Arthur Jensen (1923-2012). From the late 1960s until his death, Jensen was the world’s foremost intelligence researcher who singlehandedly made methodological and scientific breakthroughs that greatly advanced intelligence research. I never got to meet Arthur Jensen, but…
Sometimes the fish does not realize that it’s wet. That was my realization this week after I posted a brief description of a study that was recently published. The study (Schneider et al., 2020) showed that a short training video led a randomly selected experimental group to have IQ scores over 15 points higher than…
My new book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence has been published! The e-book version was released worldwide on October 29, 2020, with the print version being released the same day in the United Kingdom. The print version was released in the United States two days later. So far, the response is…
One of my guilty pleasures is true crime television shows. I’m fascinated by the twists and turns that go into identifying, accusing, and convicting a criminal and the mystery surrounding those who have (so far) gotten away with their crimes. Several years ago, a new forensic technique called DNA phenotyping caught my eye. DNA phenotyping…
Next year, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Lewis Terman’s Genetic Studies of Genius. This was a study of 1,528 children high-IQ children that spanned 74 years of physical, cognitive, and social development. Although the Genetic Studies of Genius is one of the most famous studies in psychology, its size (consisting thousands…
My new book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence, is officially one month away from its October 29 release by Cambridge University Press. The book is currently available for pre-order from the publisher (use the checkout code “WARNE2020” to get a 20% discount!) and Amazon.com. [Update: The book has been released.] A…
Last year, I co-authored an article with my student where we identified the first known publication of the subtests that appear on the Stanford-Binet 5, the WPPSI-IV, WISC-V, and WAIS-IV (Gibbons & Warne, 2019). Much to our suprise, we found that the majority of subtest formats on these popular intelligence tests were created by 1908.…
