IQ
- Because You Really Wished I'd Write More About Books
- Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2008
- Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2008
- Last Words on Saletan
- Reading Skills
- In Which I Demand That Slate Refund My Subscription
- Uncle Fritz Explains How It Feels to Argue about Intelligence Tests
- g, a Statistical Myth
- Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
- Those Voices Again
- ...In Different Voices
- On the Superiority of Sociology to String Theory
- PS:
- Q: So the analogy suggests that IQ scores are...?A: A proxy for the skills and habits encouraged by a bureaucratic society; skills and habits which can be at once highly heritable (because of strong transmission through family and neighbors) and highly learned (within the scope of what it is biologically possible for humans to learn and internalize). Innate ability needn't enter into it at all. The implications for democracy would be nearly nil.Q: And the famous g?A: Is a statistical artifact, or better yet a myth; but that is another story for another time.
