James R. Flynn

How to Improve Your Mind

20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

In How to Improve Your Mind , renowned psychologist James R. Flynn presents 20 key concepts to aid critical thinking and empower individuals to critically analyze what they read, hear, and see in our information society.

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Become the master of your world

Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking
Authored by one of the world s most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect
Looks at topics such as Race and IQ, "good" science and the current world economic crisis
Written in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9781119944768
• ISBN-10: 1119944767
• Artikelnr.: 34550896

Autorenporträt

James R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and its Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. He has been profiled in Scientific American and named "Distinguished Contributor" by the International Society for Intelligence Research. He is the author of What is Intelligence? (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Boxes ix Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1 Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15 2 Logic and Moral Debate
Attacks on Blacks 17 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies
No Private Clubs 24 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences
be Judgmental 32 5 But that is Unnatural
Words Best Never Said 41 Part 2 The Truth about People 49 6 Random Sample
Quality Not Size 51 7 Intelligence Quotient
Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56 8 Intelligence Quotient
and the Black/White IQ Gap 62 9 Control Group
How Studying People Changes Them 69 10 The Sociologist ' s Fallacy
Ignoring the Real World 75 Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85 11 Creating a Market
Not a Frankenstein 87 12 Market Forces
How they Take their Revenge 96 13 Market Worship
No Ritual Sacrifices 108 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117 15 What is to be Done? 130 Part 4 Enemies of Science 139 16 Reality
What Scientists Really Say About Science 141 17 History, Science, and Evolution
Only One Kind of Each 152 Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163 18 Understanding Nations
Understanding Anyone 165 19 Four Cases
Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173 20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183 Index 189

Rezensionen

"Professor James Flynn sets a clever trap in his latest book, How to Improve Your Mind. Promising that all readers will "be far more able to defend their position after reading it than before", Flynn instead provides the critical tools necessary instead for reassessing the irrational beliefs each of us hold and, in so confronting, end them. For your own good, you should let yourself be trapped." Weekend Press, Christchurch