Reading, Writing & No Arithmetic (Vol I & II)

Overview: Kelli Jae Baeli began writing as a child, exploring poetry and journaling, and eventually moving on to short stories. After a romantic fling in the military with another female soldier, she decided to write a book based on the experience. The story that evolved took on a life of its own, but it became her first novel, As You Were. This was followed quickly by Armchair Detective, a book she said she wrote because she couldn’t find other lesbian fiction she liked at the time, and so wanted to write something she would want to read. She's been doing that ever since. This Book Aims To Penetrate The Mists Of Controversy, Ideology And Prejudice By Providing A Clear Non-mathematical Framework For The Definition And Measurement Of Intelligence Derived From Modern Factor Analysis. Building On This Framework And Drawing On Everyday Ideas, The Author Addresses Key Controversies In A Clear And Accessible Style And Explores Some Of The Claims Made By Well-known Writers In The Field Such As Stephen Jay Gould And Michael Howe.--jacket. 1. The Great Intelligence Debate: Science Or Ideology? : The Noise Of Battle ; Why Such Sensitivity? ; What Is Intelligence? ; Can Intelligence Be Measured? ; Do Measures Of Intelligence Have Any Use? ; Ideology Re-visited ; Who Are The Experts? ; Scylla And Charybdis -- 2. Origins : The Two Roots ; Origins Of Iq: Binet, Terman And Wechsler ; Origins: Charles Spearman And Factor Analysis ; Spurious Correlation ; Spearman's Basic Idea ; Spearman's Two-factor Theory ; Burt, Thurstone And Thomson ; Hierarchical Factor Analysis ; Early Limitations Of Factor Analysis ; Modern Factor Analysis ; Learning From History -- 3. The End Of Iq? : The Parting Of The Ways ; Intelligence Is Not So Much A 'thing' As A Collective Property ; A Collective Property Of What? ; 'intelligence Is What Intelligence Tests Measure' ; Definition By Dialogue ; Does Iq Have A Future? --^ 4. First Steps To G : More About Collective And Individual Properties ; Why Stop At One Collective Property? ; Why Are We Interested In Things Like Size And Shape? ; Are Size And Shape Real? ; The Case Of Athletic Ability ; More Examples -- 5. Second Steps To G : Manifest And Latent Variables ; Models ; Variation And Correlation ; Dimensions And Dimensionality ; The Measuring Instrument And The Measurement ; Levels Of Measurement ; The G-factor ; A Dual Measure? ; Back To Definitions -- 6. Extracting G : The Strategy ; An Informal Approach ; Sufficiency: A Key Idea ; An Embarrassment Of Solutions! ; The Classical Approach ; Item Response Theory ; Some Practical Issues -- 7. Factor Analysis Or Principal Components Analysis? : What Is Principal Components Analysis? ; Gould's Version ; Principal Components Analysis Is Not Factor Analysis ; How Did This Situation Arise? ; Gould's Error --^ 8. One Intelligence Or Many? : The Background ; Thurstone's Multiple Factor Idea ; A Hierarchy Of Factors? ; Variation In Two Dimensions ; Variation In More Dimensions: A Dominant Dimension ; Finding The Dominant Dimension ; Rotation ; Does Rotation Dispose Of G? ; Frames Of Mind -- 9. The Bell Curve: Facts, Fallacies, And Speculations : Status Of The Curve ; What Is The Bell Curve? ; Why Is The Bell Curve So Important? ; Why Might Iq Or G Be Treated As Normal? ; Intuitions On The Spacing Of Individuals -- 10. What Is G? : Introduction ; A Broader Framework: Latent Structure Models ; Factor (or G- )scores ; Factor Loadings ; Validity ; Reliability ; The Identity Of G ; Iq Versus G -- 11. Are Some Groups More Intelligent Than Others? : The Big Question ; Group Differences ; Examples Of Group Differences ; Group Differences In Iq ; The Flynn Effect ; Explaining Group Differences ; Confounding ; Can We Ever Explain The Black/white Difference In Iq? --^ 12. Is Intelligence Inherited? : What Is The Argument About? ; Some Rudimentary Genetics ; Heritability ; How Can We Measure Heritability? ; How Can We Estimate Heritability? ; The Index Of Heritability Depends On The Population ; Confounding, Covariation And Interaction ; The Flynn Effect Re-visited ; The Heritability Of G -- 13. Facts And Fallacies : Terminology ; Principal Conclusions About Iq And G ; Gould's Five Points ; Similar Points Made By Others ; Howe's Twelve 'facts' Which Are Not True ; Science And Pseudo-science. By David J. Bartholomew. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 164-167) And Index.

The study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, what it means for one individual to be more intelligent than the other, and how such differences might have arisen. With the emphasis on these issues, the efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence have been obscured.
The author provides clear, comprehensive, and extremely readable introduction to this difficult subject. In addition to a discussion of the traditional topics raised by IQ tests, this book attempts to bring the theory and data of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to bear on some of these other, equally important scientific questions.

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This book provides an overview of the main issues around the study of intelligence, including the modern development of IQ testing, environmental and hereditary effects on intelligence, factor analysis, and theories of intelligence. It also looks at different kinds of intelligence, such as verbal and spatial abilities, and reasoning and problem solving. Mackintosh (psychology, U. of Cambridge) incorporates explanatory boxes and chapter summaries making this a useful text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in psychology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been commonplace and there is not even a consensus as to whether intelligence exists and, if it does, whether it can be measured. As a result the debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence - all of which have major policy implications. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice by providing a clear non-mathematical framework for the definition and measurement of intelligence derived from modern factor analysis. Building on this framework and drawing on everyday ideas the author address key controversies in a clear and accessible style and explores some of the claims made by well known writers in the field such as Stephen Jay Gould and Michael Howe. This book penetrates the thicket of controversy, ideology and prejudice surrounding the measurement of intelligence to provide a clear non-mathematical analysis of it. The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history and whether intelligence exists and can be measured still remains unresolved. The debate about it has centered on the "nurture versus nature" controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence. Kelli Jae Baeli, Indie Author and Publisher with Indie Literati Press and Lesbian Literati Press, and author of 40 books, numerous articles, stories and essays, shares some thoughts about the writing craft and the writer's life, which necessarily also includes lots of reading. Followed by thoughtful examinations, splenetic ruminations and often humorous outbursts of weirdness.� The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice which surround the measurement of intelligence and to provide a clear, non-mathematical treatment drawing on familiar everyday ideas