How To Improve Your Mind: 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World [Paperback]

• 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

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1

Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15

2 Logic and Moral Debate  Attacks on Blacks 17

3 Getting Rid of Tautologies  No Private Clubs 24

4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences  be Judgmental 32

5 But that is Unnatural  Words Best Never Said 41

Part 2 The Truth about People 49

6 Random Sample  Quality Not Size 51

7 Intelligence Quotient  Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56

8 Intelligence Quotient  and the Black/White IQ Gap 62

9 Control Group  How Studying People Changes Them 69

10 The Sociologist  s Fallacy  Ignoring the Real World 75

Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85

11 Creating a Market  Not a Frankenstein 87

12 Market Forces  How they Take their Revenge 96

13 Market Worship  No Ritual Sacrifices 108

14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117

15 What is to be Done? 130

Part 4 Enemies of Science 139

16 Reality  What Scientists Really Say About Science 141

17 History, Science, and Evolution  Only One Kind of Each 152