How To Improve Your Mind 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World

by Flynn, James R.

• ISBN13: 9781119944768
• ISBN10: 1119944767
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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