{"product_id":"how-to-improve-your-mind-isbn-9781119944768","title":"How To Improve Your Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBecome the master of your world\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuthored by one of the world's most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at topics such as Race and IQ, \"good\" science and the current world economic crisis \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Figures and Boxes ix  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Logic and Moral Debate – Attacks on Blacks 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Getting Rid of Tautologies – No Private Clubs 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences – be Judgmental 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 But that is Unnatural – Words Best Never Said 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 The Truth about People 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Random Sample – Quality Not Size 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Intelligence Quotient – Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Intelligence Quotient – and the Black\/White IQ Gap 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Control Group – How Studying People Changes Them 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Sociologist ’ s Fallacy – Ignoring the Real World 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 The Market and Its Church 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Creating a Market – Not a Frankenstein 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Market Forces – How they Take their Revenge 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Market Worship – No Ritual Sacrifices 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 What is to be Done? 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Enemies of Science 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Reality – What Scientists Really Say About Science 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 History, Science, and Evolution – Only One Kind of Each 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5 Nations and their Goals 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Understanding Nations – Understanding Anyone 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Four Cases – Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 189\u003c\/p\u003e \"Professor James Flynn sets a clever trap in his latest book, \u003ci\u003eHow to Improve Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. Promising that all readers will \"be far more able to defend their position after reading it than before\", Flynn instead provides the critical tools necessary instead for reassessing the irrational beliefs each of us hold and, in so confronting, end them. For your own good, you should let yourself be trapped.\" Weekend Press, Christchurch  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames R. Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and its Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. He has been profiled in \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e and named \"Distinguished Contributor\" by the International Society for Intelligence Research. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat is Intelligence?\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEach day our minds experience a deluge of conversation, lectures, newspapers, TV, the Internet, and more. But what should we really be paying attention to? James R. Flynn, world-renowned intelligence researcher and discoverer of the Flynn Effect (the phenomenon of rising global IQs over time), poses the most challenging question of all: Who is to be the master of all this information – you or the modern world? It is \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e, he claims, who must be the gatekeeper that filters out what is worth remembering. Otherwise you may find yourself at the mercy of a life that you can only manage day by day.\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHow to Improve Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Flynn presents 20 key concepts to aid critical thinking: practical guidelines that will empower you to critically analyze what you read, what you hear, and what you see. You will gain a greater understanding of a wide range of topics that include contemporary race and IQ debates, what makes good science and history, why America and Israel behave as they do, and the origins of the current economic crisis. Flynn's \"20 keys\" translate into an invaluable toolkit enabling readers to make up their own minds about ethics, religion, history, economics, international politics, and even what they should eat. \u003ci\u003eHow to Improve Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e offers great insights into how to become an information master in the age of information overload. ","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989380088037,"sku":"NP9781119944768","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119944768.jpg?v=1761783886","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/how-to-improve-your-mind-isbn-9781119944768","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}