which I am reading just now. Nisbett reviews the best recent literature on IQ testing and what it means, and punches holes in the fallacious reasoning used by many advocates of a strong hereditarian view of influence on IQ.
A really good book for background reading on IQ testing and how it works is IQ and Human Intelligence by N. J. Mackintosh,
which includes very clear explanations of how IQ tests have developed historically, how they are currently constructed and validated, and what we still don't know about human rationality despite a century of IQ testing.
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It looks like several journalists need to read the new book Intelligence and How to Get It by Richard E. Nisbett,
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/winter09/006505.htm
which I am reading just now. Nisbett reviews the best recent literature on IQ testing and what it means, and punches holes in the fallacious reasoning used by many advocates of a strong hereditarian view of influence on IQ.
A really good book for background reading on IQ testing and how it works is IQ and Human Intelligence by N. J. Mackintosh,
http://www.amazon.com/IQ-Human-Intelligence-N-Mackintosh/dp/...
which includes very clear explanations of how IQ tests have developed historically, how they are currently constructed and validated, and what we still don't know about human rationality despite a century of IQ testing.