Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia
Pour reprendre l’expression pittoresque de Flynn, tout le monde s’est mis à porter les mêmes « lunettes scientifiques » que celles des premiers concepteurs des tests de QI.
Nicholas Carr • Internet rend-il bête ? (French Edition)
Compelling evidence shows that genetics plays a more important role than environment as intelligence develops from childhood, and that intelligence test scores correspond strongly to specific features of the brain assessed with neuroimaging.
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
Being smart doesn’t mean that you’re willing to try on alternative viewpoints, or that you’re comfortable with uncertainty, or that you can recognize your own mistakes. It doesn’t mean you have insight into your own biases. In fact, one thing that high-IQ people might genuinely be better at than other people is convincing themselves that their own ... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Asians test higher than whites—
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
“IQ is generally correlated in a very positive way with moral behavior,” he said. “If you’re going to say average IQ would be the touchstone of a good society, then you’d be a ‘yellow’ supremacist.