How To Improve Your Mind: 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World [Flynn - Wiley - Blackwell]
- ISBN/EAN
- 9781119944768
- Editore
- Wiley - Blackwell
- Formato
- Brossura
- Anno
- 2012
- Pagine
- 208
Disponibile
23,80 €
Become the master of your world
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
Maggiori Informazioni
| Autore | Flynn James R. |
|---|---|
| Editore | Wiley - Blackwell |
| Anno | 2012 |
| Tipologia | Libro |
| Lingua | Inglese |
| Indice | Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15 2 Logic and Moral Debate – Attacks on Blacks 17 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies – No Private Clubs 24 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences – be Judgmental 32 5 But that is Unnatural – Words Best Never Said 41 Part 2 The Truth about People 49 6 Random Sample – Quality Not Size 51 7 Intelligence Quotient – Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56 8 Intelligence Quotient – and the Black/White IQ Gap 62 9 Control Group – How Studying People Changes Them 69 10 The Sociologist ’ s Fallacy – Ignoring the Real World 75 Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85 11 Creating a Market – Not a Frankenstein 87 12 Market Forces – How they Take their Revenge 96 13 Market Worship – No Ritual Sacrifices 108 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117 15 What is to be Done? 130 Part 4 Enemies of Science 139 16 Reality – What Scientists Really Say About Science 141 17 History, Science, and Evolution – Only One Kind of Each 152 Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163 18 Understanding Nations – Understanding Anyone 165 19 Four Cases – Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173 20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183 Index 189 |
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