What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

A book that helped change the way I think is What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001646... (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300164626) http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog... (http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/0300164629/) by Keith R. Stanovich. I'll quote here from a review of the book I wrote for friends on an email list about education of high-IQ children, and sum up an answer to your question in my last paragraph: "For many kinds of errors in cognition, as Stanovich points out with multiple citations to peer-reviewed published research, the performance of high-IQ individuals is no better at all than the performance of low-IQ individuals. The default behavior of being a cognitive miser applies to everyone, as it is strongly selected for by evolution. In some cases, an experimenter can prompt a test subject on effective strategies to minimize cognitive errors, and in some of those cases prompted high-IQ individuals perform better than control groups. Stanovich concludes with dismay in a sentence he writes in bold print:…

My favorite read in early 2009 was What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovich http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog... (http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/030012385X/) which is full of helpful information on developing the kind of cognition missed by IQ tests that constitutes rationality, very important information for parents, educators, and business leaders. 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species, has been a banner year for new books on evolutionary biology. Some of my favorites include Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne http://www.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0670... (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0670020532/) The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution... (http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution/dp/1416594787/) and Evolution: The First Four Billion Years edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis.…