Intelligence: All That Matters
All That Matters
$30.64
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2015
Summary
“A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence.” - Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education
The scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the brain. Studies of intelligence and IQ are regularly published in the wo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444791877 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444791877 |
| Author: | Stuart Ritchie |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray One |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | All That Matters |
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A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence.
A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence. – Dylan Wiliam, Institute of EducationThe best available short introduction to intelligence, and word for word the most effective. – James Thompson, University College LondonA superb introduction to the field of human intelligence. – Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
About The Author
Stuart Ritchie
Dr. Stuart J. Ritchie is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Psychology. His research focuses on how intelligence develops and changes across the lifespan, what might influence it in childhood, and how we might prevent it from declining in later life. His studies of intelligence have been published in journals such as Psychological Science, Current Biology, Child Development, and Intelligence.
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