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Reviews of IN THE KNOW
To mark the one-year anniversary of the American release of my book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence, I have compiled the book’s reviews. Each reviewer has their own insights, and each found different things worth highlighting in the book. The first review of my book was published by retired British psychology…
1930s environmentalism in the IQ debate
It is clear that the pre-war views of intelligence and race were not guided blindly by racism.
Open source textbooks: You get what you pay for
I’m stretching myself this summer by teaching, for the first time ever(!), an introduction to psychology course. This is quite a change for me; for over a decade, I have only taught upper-division or graduate-level courses. Now, I’m teaching students who are early in their college career, and (because the class is a general education…
The gremlins that strengthen stereotype threat
Instead of an insightful view into the problems of stereotype threat research, I instead found an article that itself is plagued with flaws.
IN THE KNOW available now!
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…
Advance praise for IN THE KNOW
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…
The $67.5 million wasted on stereotype threat research
One popular topic in psychology when discussing test performance is the idea of stereotype threat. First proposed by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995, the stereotype threat is phenomenon where a person who belongs to a stereotyped demographic group performs in accordance with the stereotype after being reminded of it. Usually this is suggested…
Thoughts on low national IQs, intellectual disability, and data quality
[February 2023 update: I recently published an article analyzing national IQs. The article incorporates some of the ideas in this blog post.] A recent now-retracted paper in Psychological Science by Clark et al. (2020) caused some controversy lately in the psychological community. The authors found some correlations with other national-level data that could be theoretically…
IN THE KNOW available for pre-order!
My upcoming book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence is now available for pre-order from Cambridge University Press (which gives a 20% discount to customers who use the code “WARNE2020” at checkout) and Amazon.com. [Update: The book has been released.] The book is a tour of 35 common misconceptions that many people…
