Description
Become the master of your world
- Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking
- Authored by one of the world's most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect
- Looks at topics such as Race and IQ, "good" science and the current world economic crisis
- Written in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Boxes ix
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1
Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15
2 Logic and Moral Debate – Attacks on Blacks 17
3 Getting Rid of Tautologies – No Private Clubs 24
4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences – be Judgmental 32
5 But that is Unnatural – Words Best Never Said 41
Part 2 The Truth about People 49
6 Random Sample – Quality Not Size 51
7 Intelligence Quotient – Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56
8 Intelligence Quotient – and the Black/White IQ Gap 62
9 Control Group – How Studying People Changes Them 69
10 The Sociologist ’ s Fallacy – Ignoring the Real World 75
Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85
11 Creating a Market – Not a Frankenstein 87
12 Market Forces – How they Take their Revenge 96
13 Market Worship – No Ritual Sacrifices 108
14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117
15 What is to be Done? 130
Part 4 Enemies of Science 139
16 Reality – What Scientists Really Say About Science 141
17 History, Science, and Evolution – Only One Kind of Each 152
Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163
18 Understanding Nations – Understanding Anyone 165
19 Four Cases – Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173
20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183
Index 189
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