Intelligence, Race, and Genetics : Conversations with Arthur R. Jensenn

by MIELE FRANK

• ISBN13: 9780813340081
• ISBN10: 081334008X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

In a series of provocative conversations withSkepticmagazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor), racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests, and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness, Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy, such as Affirmative Action."Jensenism," the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences, has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless,Intelligence, Race, and Geneticscarefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions.

Author Biography

Frank Miele’shighly regarded Skeptic interviews include conversations with evolutionists Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson, anthropologists Donald Johanson, Lionel Tiger, and Robin Fox, ecologist Garrett Hardin, and psychologist Robert Sternberg. His articles have appeared on many web pages, including those of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. He lives in Sunnyvale, California, with his Great Dane, Payce

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Jensenism and Skepticism	p. 1
Prelude: The Man Behind the "Ism"	p. 7
Jensenism: A New Word in the Dictionary	p. 17
What Is Intelligence? The g Factor and Its Rivals	p. 43
Nature, Nurture, or Both? Can Heritability Cut Psychology's Gordian Knot?	p. 69
What Is Race? Biological Reality or Cultural Construction?	p. 109
From Jensenism to The Bell Curve Wars: Science, Pseudoscience, and Politics	p. 147
Science and Policy: What's to Be Done?	p. 171
Bibliography of Arthur R. Jensen	p. 191
Mainstream Science on Intelligence	p. 223
Index	p. 231
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