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IQ and Genetics

Posted by Jack Stephens | December 19th, 2007 | Crossposted from The Blog and the Bullet

Amardeep Singh blogs:

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest in the New Yorker is a must-read for anyone who’s been stuck arguing with an IQ fetishist at a dinner party (sadly, this has happened to me once too often). Gladwell relies heavily on the work of James Flynn, who has a new book out called What is Intelligence?. Flynn shows that IQ scores, in various parts of the world, tend to rise over time — and delves into the implications of those changes for how we understand IQ scores

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3 Responses to “IQ and Genetics”

  1. Doug S. Writes:
    December 19th, 2007 at 8:08 am

    I linked to that one in a comment in that thread…

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  2. Sailorman Writes:
    December 19th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    But to label [people with low IQ scores] less intelligent than [people with high IQ scores], on the basis of their performance on that test, is merely to state that they have different cognitive preferences and habits. And if I.Q. varies with habits of mind, which can be adopted or discarded in a generation, what, exactly, is all the fuss about?

    That’s taken from the comment about the Kpelle tribe but it sums the article up nicely, I think.

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  3. pjgoober Writes:
    December 21st, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Malcom Gladwell wrote that Hernstein and Murray wanted to put the low IQ in high tech indian reservations, something which is the exact opposite of the truth. The New Yorker wrote a gracious apology/retraction. How could Gladwell get such an important part of The Bell Curve so wrong?

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