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"Now N. J. Mackintosh, a distinguished animal-learning theorist having considerable psychometric experience and no aversion to tackling difficult and controversial issues, weighs in with his own views [on the g factor]. IQ and Human Intelligence demonstrates that he has done his homework. . . . Mackintosh's analysis of purported environmental influences on intelligence is one of the most thoughtful in the literature. . . . One of the great strengths of this book is its treatment of cognitive science research relevant to understanding intelligence. Mackintosh's mastery of the empirical findings, their possible interpretation, and contemporary theory is impressive. . . . The scientific study of human intelligence was for a long time primarily an applied activity focused on measurement . . . [Now it] has become a major theoretical enterprise. [This book] is a superb introduction to the current status of both facets of this important and fascinating endeavor."--Science
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`What is intelligence?' may seem like a simple question to answer, but the study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, on what it means for one person to be more intelligent than another, and how such differences might have arisen, obscuring efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence. These are obviously fundamental questions, still widely debated and misunderstood. New definitions of intelligence and new factors affecting intelligence are frequently being described, while psychometric testing is applied in most large industries. IQ and Human Intelligence provides a clear, authoritative overview of the main issues surrounding this fascinating area, including the modern development of IQ tests, the heritability of intelligence, theories of intelligence, environmental effects on IQ, factor analysis, relationship of cognitive psychology to measuring IQ, and intelligence in the social context. The clear, accessible style and numerous explanatory boxes make this the ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology.
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The Best on Its Subject
22 Jun 2003
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Masterful survey of the latest theoretical and experimental literature on the measurement of human intelligence at all levels from the sensorimotor to the cognitive. Very balanced discussion of controversial issues and superb bibliography. Mackintosh's thoughtful use of diagrams and tables of numerical data in addition to carefully phrased verbal explanations suggests that he is a whole-brain learner and is very helpful in aiding the reader's understanding of complicated issues. This book sets the new standard for general textbooks about IQ testing and has been adopted for the IQ testing course at several top universities. Every person who has ever paid for an IQ test or decided how to educate someone based on an IQ test should read this book at the earliest opportunity.
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Environmentalist wannabe disappoints
27 April 2006
Format:Paperback
CAMBRIDGE PSYCHOLOGY SUPREMO DARES NOT MENTION The g Factor
The long-expected work on IQ from the Professor of Psychology at Cambridge, Nicholas J. Mackintosh, has now appeared in bookshops (IQ and Human Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 1998, ?UK20). Anything new? Nothing at all!
Mackintosh's environmentalism consists in grabbing at the lifebelt tossed by James Flynn: something environmental must have been going on even though no-one knows what it was and even though a full range of individual differences in IQ has persisted.
Mackintosh doesn't reckon that IQ correlates at more than -.50 with Inspection Time or at more than -.30 with Reaction Time. -- Hardly surprising when most of the research Mackintosh uses involves only testees of above-average IQ! (Mental speed is a less important determinant such IQ variance as remains in studies dominated by university-level subjects.)
What about breaking up the g factor? Well, this is much to be desired, thinks Mackintosh. But when it comes to the details, he loses his nerve: 'social intelligence' in particular proves too much for him; so, while happy to think that 'spatial ability' might count for a bit more than at present, Mackintosh goes little further than acknowledging Cattell's distinction between 'fluid' and 'crystallized' intelligence.
Nor does arch-ratman Mackintosh have any educational proposals to show for his years of poking around in IQ. Merely, more research is necessary....
Mackintosh's thinking on the black-white race difference shows no response at all to eighty years in which:
environmentalists have failed to provide an explanation;
the B-W difference has been securely pinned to the g factor (and thus to a difference well known to be largely heritable);
adoption of Black children into middle-class White homes has done nothing to reduce the race difference in IQ by age 17;
IQ's non-enironmental link to myopia has been confirmed;
and brain size has turned out to correlate as high as .40 with IQ.
Addressing sociologist Bob Gordon's work of 1997, showing Black crime to be exactly as predicted from IQ, Mackintosh concludes his book bleating that it is 'entirely unreasonable' to believe in genetic factors just because environmental factors have not delivered the goods.
Any mention of The g Factor (Wiley DePublisher, 1996) from the UK professor who once commended the book in Nature? Not a word! Though Mackintosh tutored Brand for a year at Oxford -- and Brand still has Mackintosh's [very dangerous] coffee grinder -- the work of ostracism has been complete.
The long-expected work on IQ from the Professor of Psychology at Cambridge, Nicholas J. Mackintosh, has now appeared in bookshops (IQ and Human Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 1998, ?UK20). Anything new? Nothing at all!
Mackintosh's environmentalism consists in grabbing at the lifebelt tossed by James Flynn: something environmental must have been going on even though no-one knows what it was and even though a full range of individual differences in IQ has persisted.
Mackintosh doesn't reckon that IQ correlates at more than -.50 with Inspection Time or at more than -.30 with Reaction Time. -- Hardly surprising when most of the research Mackintosh uses involves only testees of above-average IQ! (Mental speed is a less important determinant such IQ variance as remains in studies dominated by university-level subjects.)
What about breaking up the g factor? Well, this is much to be desired, thinks Mackintosh. But when it comes to the details, he loses his nerve: 'social intelligence' in particular proves too much for him; so, while happy to think that 'spatial ability' might count for a bit more than at present, Mackintosh goes little further than acknowledging Cattell's distinction between 'fluid' and 'crystallized' intelligence.
Nor does arch-ratman Mackintosh have any educational proposals to show for his years of poking around in IQ. Merely, more research is necessary....
Mackintosh's thinking on the black-white race difference shows no response at all to eighty years in which:
environmentalists have failed to provide an explanation;
the B-W difference has been securely pinned to the g factor (and thus to a difference well known to be largely heritable);
adoption of Black children into middle-class White homes has done nothing to reduce the race difference in IQ by age 17;
IQ's non-enironmental link to myopia has been confirmed;
and brain size has turned out to correlate as high as .40 with IQ.
Addressing sociologist Bob Gordon's work of 1997, showing Black crime to be exactly as predicted from IQ, Mackintosh concludes his book bleating that it is 'entirely unreasonable' to believe in genetic factors just because environmental factors have not delivered the goods.
Any mention of The g Factor (Wiley DePublisher, 1996) from the UK professor who once commended the book in Nature? Not a word! Though Mackintosh tutored Brand for a year at Oxford -- and Brand still has Mackintosh's [very dangerous] coffee grinder -- the work of ostracism has been complete.
12 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Opinionated but balanced
26 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
Mackintosh admits in the preface that he will not try to hide his opinions. And he doesn't, not on topics as controversial as the heritability of intelligence and racial differences in IQ scores. (Whether his conclusions are correct is, of course, up to the reader to decide.) His constant aim to search for data behind all claims will greatly serve students (and professors) who read the book, especially in a time when evidence is ignored in favor of political propaganda.
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