IQ in Question: The Truth about Intelligence (Sage Communications in Society]) - Softcover

Howe, Michael J A

 
9780761955788: IQ in Question: The Truth about Intelligence (Sage Communications in Society])
Softcover
ISBN 10: 076195578X ISBN 13: 9780761955788
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

`In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots into which IQ testers and their supporters have tied themselves.... Howe suggests that we have, for decades, been asking the wrong kinds of questions. He points to the number of alternative, theoretically richer, views of human intelligence that don′t reduce all to a single dimension... this is rendered with an easy, readable style which assumes no previous technical knowledge′ - British Journal of Educational Psychology

In this provocative and accessible book, Michael Howe exposes serious flaws in our most widely accepted beliefs about intelligence. He shows that crucial assumptions are simply wrong and have had destructive social consequences. IQ is real enough, but the common idea that a quality of intelligence is the underlying cause of people′s differing abilities is based on poor science as well as faulty reasoning.

Offering a powerful case for a better understanding of human intelligence, IQ in Question contradicts erroneous and destructive claims such as: IQ tests provide a measure of inherent mental capacities; intelligence and `race′ are linked; IQ measures are good predictors of a person′s success; intelligence cannot be changed; there is a `gene for intelligence′; and low IQ always means restricted capabilities.

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About the Author

Michael J A Howe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He has written widely about human intelligence and his publications include The Origins of Exceptional Abilities (1990) and Fragments of Genius (1989).

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
076195578X
ISBN 13 
9780761955788
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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