Intelligence (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Intelligence on Myths and Measurement 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
To the reader 8
Chapter 1. Intelligence: History of the Concept 16
Philosophy 17
Predestined Development 21
Equality and Liberalism 24
The Theory of Evolution 26
Lysenkoism 27
Classic Eugenics, Spencer and Galton 29
Eugenics Makes an Advance 35
Footnotes 39
Chapter 2. What is Intelligence? 42
Definitions and Reduction 43
Early Psychometrics 46
Correlations, and then what? 48
Vectors of the Mind 51
Psychometrists and Cognitivists 55
Conclusion 57
Footnotes 58
Chapter 3. Tests and what they measure 60
Measuring and Statistics 61
How a Test is Constructed 66
Requirements of a Test 69
Types of Tests 71
Developmert of IQ 72
Occupation, Schooling, Income, Creativity 77
What is the Use of the IQ Test? 81
Footnotes 83
Chapter 4. Regression toward the mean - a mysterious force o f nature? 86
Regression within the Individual 86
Repeated Measuring of One Group 87
Regression Over Different Groups 89
Predictions 94
Conclusion 95
Footnotes 96
Chapter 5. Entry of the theories 98
The Debate 99
Self-Involvement 100
Genetics and the Nature Theory 102
The Standpoint of the Nature Theory 106
The Environmental Theory 108
Conflict is the Father of all Things 110
Footnotes 114
Chapter 6. The hereditarian viewpoint 116
The Heredity of IQ 117
Two Methods 120
The Issue of Calculation 121
Twins 126
Correlation Between Parent and Child 129
Adoption and In-breeding 130
Occupation, Income, Classes, and Races 132
Conclusions 136
Footnotes 138
Chapter 7. Interaction 142
The Useless Dichotomy 142
A Soup Theory 144
Problems 148
About Negroes, Birth Rates, and Broken Families 149
Conclusion 150
Footnotes 151
Chapter 8. Milieu and compensation programs 152
A Bag Full of Atoms and a Skewed Distribution 152
Learning Pills 153
What is Environment? 156
Problems 158
Compensation Programs 160
Habituation 164
Conclusion 166
Footnotes 167
Chapter 9. Education, equality, and talent reserves 168
Education 168
Equality 171
Talent Reserves 173
Ideology 176
What now? 177
Footnotes 179
References 180