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by rkts
5860 days ago
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I have not read Stanovich's book but it does not appear to be an appropriate introduction to the subject of intelligence. I suspect you recommend these "newer and better" books because they suit your ideological purposes, not because they are better researched or more informative. |
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I suspect that because you haven't read the book yet (as you forthrightly acknowledge), you don't have a basis of knowledge for knowing why I recommend it. But newer can be better in books about intelligence (not necessarily, but older isn't surely better either) simply because human intelligence is a subject of a very vigorous research program involving hundreds of scientists all over the world. If your claim is that the book you have recommended (which I read, back when it was published) is the last word on the subject, you might at least show onlookers a link to a book review saying so.
I meet in person with the researchers who do the primary research on the subject of human intelligence who happen to be in my town
http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall09/mcguem/psy8935/defau...
and I make sure to keep up with the recent literature (from various points of view) in the huge academic library of my alma mater, the research base of several of the leading scientists in the discipline. I invite onlookers in this thread to access the primary research sources themselves and the see which books are better researched or more informative.
The best introduction to IQ testing, because it was so forward-looking and well researched when it was published, continues to be the Mackintosh (1998) book mentioned in the online bibliography I linked to in my previous reply to you. But Alan S. Kaufman's very new IQ Testing 101 (full citation in another comment in this thread) is also very good, and was published just in the last year.