Intelligence, race, and genetics : conversations with Arthur R. Jensen
Frank Miele (Author)
In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor), racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests, and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and disc
Interviews
1 online resource (256 pages)
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PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Jensenism and Skepticism; PRELUDE The Man Behind the "Ism"; 1 JENSENISM A New Word in the Dictionary; 2 WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? The g Factor and Its Rivals; 3 NATURE, NURTURE, OR BOTH? Can Heritability Cut Psychology's Gordian Knot?; 4 WHAT IS RACE? Biological Reality or Cultural Construction?; 5 FROM JENSENISM TO THE BELL CURVE WARS Science, Pseudoscience, and Politics; 6 SCIENCE AND POLICY What's to Be Done?; Appendix A: Bibliography of Arthur R. Jensen; Appendix B: Mainstream Science on Intelligence; Index