IQ in Question : The Truth about Intelligence

Howe, Michael J. A.

ISBN 10: 076195578X / ISBN 13: 9780761955788

Published by SAGE Publications, Limited, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: IQ in Question : The Truth about Intelligence

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

`In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots into which IQ testers and their supporters have tied themselves.... Howe suggests that we have, for decades, been asking the wrong kinds of questions. He points to the number of alternative, theoretically richer, views of human intelligence that don′t reduce all to a single dimension... this is rendered with an easy, readable style which assumes no previous technical knowledge′ - British Journal of Educational Psychology

In this provocative and accessible book, Michael Howe exposes serious flaws in our most widely accepted beliefs about intelligence. He shows that cr

About the Author:

Michael J A Howe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He has written widely about human intelligence and his publications include The Origins of Exceptional Abilities (1990) and Fragments of Genius (1989).