LEADER 05309nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910141255603321 005 20210322193836.0 010 $a1-283-59909-0 010 $a9786613911544 010 $a1-118-31500-6 010 $a1-118-31499-9 010 $a1-118-31501-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000209363 035 $a(EBL)892197 035 $a(OCoLC)797919814 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000695744 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11425851 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000695744 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10676243 035 $a(PQKB)11401765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC892197 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000209363 100 $a20120306d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow to improve your mind$b[electronic resource] $etwenty keys to unlock the modern world /$fJames R. Flynn 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-119-94476-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHow to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs; Tautologies 327 $aTautologies Pretending to be Something ElseFalsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural - Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy 327 $aPart 2 The Truth about People6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors 327 $aSugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade? 327 $aSelecting Tradable Goods, Services, and InformationPrices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church 327 $a14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 330 $a"In How to Improve Your Mind, renowned psychologist James R. Flynn presents 20 key concepts to aid critical thinking and empower individuals to critically analyze what they read, hear, and see in our information society Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking Authored by one of the world's most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect Looks at topics such as Race and IQ, "good" science and the current world economic crisis Written in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCritical thinking 606 $aIntellect 606 $aKnowledge, Sociology of 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCritical thinking. 615 0$aIntellect. 615 0$aKnowledge, Sociology of. 676 $a153 676 $a153.4/3 676 $a153.43 686 $aPSY023000$2bisacsh 700 $aFlynn$b James R$g(James Robert),$f1934-2020.$0867740 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141255603321 996 $aHow to improve your mind$91936841 997 $aUNINA