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Intelligence and how to get it : why schools and cultures count
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Intelligence and how to get it : why schools and cultures count

Author: Richard Nisbett
Publisher: New York [u.a.] : Norton, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1. edView all editions and formats
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From the research of The Bell Curve to the more controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one factor has been consistently left out of the equation: culture. Intellect is not  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Nisbett
ISBN: 0393065057 9780393065053 9780393337693 0393337693
OCLC Number: 699208484
Notes: Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability -- Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue: What we know now about intelligence and academic achievement. - Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description: x, 304 S. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Richard E. Nisbett.

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Nisbett argues that a variety of social, cultural, and economic factors can significantly affect a child s IQ, and suggests ways to improve intelligence scores, as well as grades, by manipulating Read more...

 
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