Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele

Westview Press, 2002 - Social Science - 243 pages

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor), racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests, and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness, Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy, such as Affirmative Action.“Jensenism,” the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences, has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless, Intelligence, Race, and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions.

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User Review  - Haris - Goodreads

Very light on science, but a quick read.

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Among personal characteristics of any individual, none is more sensitive topic of discuss than that of intelligence. We all have a somewhat schizophrenic attitude towards it, at the same time ...

Contents

• JENSENISM: 17
• WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?: 43
• NATURE NURTURE OR BOTH?: 69
• WHAT IS RACE?: 109
• FROM JENSENISM: 126
• SCIENCE AND POLICY: 171
• Bibliography of Arthur R Jensen: 191
• Mainstream Science on Intelligence: 223

About the author

Frank Miele’shighly regarded Skeptic interviews include conversations with evolutionists Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson, anthropologists Donald Johanson, Lionel Tiger, and Robin Fox, ecologist Garrett Hardin, and psychologist Robert Sternberg. His articles have appeared on many web pages, including those of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. He lives in Sunnyvale, California, with his Great Dane, Payce

Bibliographic information

• Title: Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen
• Authors: Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Westview Press, 2002
• ISBN: 081334008X, 9780813340081
• Length: 243 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General