What is intelligence?

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…le with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that Flynn discusses are in his debt.." --Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of The Bell Curve "This highly engaging, and very readable, book takes forward the Dickens/Flynn model of intelligence in the form of asking yet more provocative questions. . . A most unusual book, one that holds the reader's attention and leaves behind concepts and ideas that force us to rethink all sorts of issues.." --Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London "Flynn provides the first satisfying explanation of the massive rise in IQ test scores. He avoids both the absurd conclusion that our great grandparents were all mentally retarded and the equally unsatisfactory suggestion that the rise has just been in performance on IQ tests without any wider implications.." --N. J. …

Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations by Jerome Sattler http://www.amazon.com/Assessment-Children-Foundations-Jerome... Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, Third Edition by Alan S. Kaufman and Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger http://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Adolescent-Adult-Intelligenc... What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovich http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog... What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect by James R. Flynn http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/... Handbook of Intelligence edited by Robert Sternberg http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Intelligence-Robert-Sternberg... and a host of related books about IQ testing and what it means, to prepare a working paper on the latest research on IQ testing.

… doesn't make that claim. The long, careful examination of what the Raven tests show, in conjunction with other evidence, can be found in James R. Flynn's excellent book What Is Intelligence?, which is about to come out in a new, expanded edition. http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Expanded-PB-Beyond/d... Also very good for reconsidering the importance of IQ tests is Keith Stanovich's What Intelligence Tests Miss. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238... http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...

I suggest you read the book "What is Intelligence?" by James Flynn himself. It's a cautious and erudite work, and the theory they float does seem to resolve quite a few of the mysteries. Perhaps most importantly, the data do not bear out universal and generic intellectual ascension. They contend that the rise in IQ has been spurred on by a change in cognitive environment over the past century, and I think the existence of a shift in cognitive demands of a massive scale is something tough to deny. Here's a paper where they discuss the theory, if you can't get the book. http://www.apa.org/journals/features/rev1082346.pdf

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