Race and Intelligence: Separating Science From Myth

by Jefferson M. Fish

Book Overview

In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences and education. What can be made of these test results in the context of current scientific knowledge about human evolution and cognition? Unfortunately, discussion of these issues has tended to generate more heat than light.

Now, the distinguished authors of this book offer powerful new illumination. Representing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138866652
• ISBN13: 9781138866652
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Race and Intelligence

This is a great book. It takes readers from the origin of humanity to how far it has come including beliefs or myths created as populations drifted away from Africa. It's also a great analysis of how perception changes as we go from one environment to another.