Versión en español de esta entrada – Spanish version of this post Earlier today I submitted the final text for my upcoming book In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence. It feels good to have it in the hands of my publisher. There is still some work to do, but most of it…
The latest scientific scandal is a re-examination of the work of Hans Eysenck, a British psychologist who was very prominent in his lifetime. One recent study ranked him as the 13th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century (Haggbloom et al., 2002). A different study ranked him as the 46th most influential psychologist of all…
After my last post about the jingle fallacy, it is impossible to resist talking about the jangle fallacy. In short, the jangle fallacy occurs when a person treats two concepts as being different because there are different words for them. The jangle fallacy occurs because “. . . psychologists can name more things than they…
This weekend, I was searching online governmental archives for historic photos to use in my upcoming book about intelligence. Here is a photo taken in 1917 or 1918 at Camp Meade, Maryland, that didn’t make the cut to be included in the section (4 paragraphs) about the Army Alpha and Army Beta. I had seen…
