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Intelligence: All That Matters
Stuart Ritchie
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Description for Intelligence: All That Matters
Paperback. Despite the decline in its reputation, intelligence testing remains a remarkably powerful tool. This book tells you everything you need to know. Series: All That Matters. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real", and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and that those who are interested in IQ testing must be elitists, or maybe something more sinister.
Yet the scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
All That Matters
Condition
New
Weight
159g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444791877
SKU
V9781444791877
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About Stuart Ritchie
Dr. Stuart J. Ritchie is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology in the University of Edinburgh's Department of Psychology. His research focuses on how intelligence develops and changes across the lifespan, what might influence it in childhood, and how we might prevent it from declining in later life. His studies of intelligence have ... Read more
Reviews for Intelligence: All That Matters
A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence.
Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education The best available short introduction to intelligence, and word for word the most effective.
James Thompson, University College London A superb introduction to the field of human intelligence.
Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education The best available short introduction to intelligence, and word for word the most effective.
James Thompson, University College London A superb introduction to the field of human intelligence.
Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH