Intelligence and how to get it why schools and cultures count
Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced : the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
Ã2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Varieties of intelligence
- Heritability and mutability
- Getting smarter
- Improving the schools
- Social class and cognitive culture
- IQ in black and white
- Mind the gap
- Advantage Asia?
- People of the book
- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own
- Epilogue : What we now know about intelligence and academic achievement
- Appendix A : Infomal definitions of statistical terms
- The case for a purely environmental basis for black/white differences in IQ.
