Illiterate people’s thinking probably remains grounded in their everyday experience. When these people take a test that solely measures abstract thinking, they perform poorly. This does not make them stupid. Instead, it shows the disconnect between their natural mode of thought and the unfamiliar test content.
Despite my disappointment in the book, I think scholars of intelligence should read it.
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…
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…
One of the most highly cited articles in intelligence research is a 1996 report commissioned by the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs to provide an authoritative statement on the science of intelligence (Neisser et al., 1996). What many people do not know, though, is that this was not the first time APA’s Board…
Update: This post has been translated into French. Cet article a été traduit en français. The latest book that I have finished reading is James Flynn’s (1980) Race, IQ and Jensen. This is the earliest work by Flynn that I have ever read, and I can see in it seeds of his later thought. The…
Last week, I had a new article published by the American Psychological Association in Teaching of Psychology (Burton & Warne, in press). The article has two parts: an analysis of course catalogs, and an outline for a university-level intelligence course. Course Catalog Analysis My then-student, Jared Z. Burton, identified 303 of the top universities in…
