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100	1		_aFlynn, James R. _q(James Robert), _d1934- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aHow to improve your mind : _btwenty keys to unlock the modern world / _cJames R. Flynn.
264		1	_aHoboken : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012
300			_a1 online resource (204 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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504			_aBIBINDX
505	0		_aHow to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate -- Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies -- No Private Clubs; Tautologies.
505	8		_aTautologies Pretending to be Something Else; Falsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences -- be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural -- Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy.
505	8		_aPart 2 The Truth about People; 6 Random Sample -- Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient -- Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient -- and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group -- How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors.
505	8		_aSugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"; Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy -- Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market -- Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade?
505	8		_aSelecting Tradable Goods, Services, and Information; Prices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces -- How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship -- No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church.
505	8		_a14 The Economic Collapse of 2008.
520			_aBecome the master of your world. 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
650		0	_aCritical thinking.
650		0	_aIntellect.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Sociology of.
650		4	_aPsychology.
650		7	_aPSYCHOLOGY _xCognitive Psychology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE _xCognitive Science. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aCritical thinking. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00883692
650		7	_aIntellect. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00975732
650		7	_aKnowledge, Sociology of. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00988190
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776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aFlynn, James R. (James Robert), 1934- _tHow To Improve Your Mind : 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World. _dHoboken : John Wiley & Sons, ©2012 _z9781119944768
856	4	0	_3Wiley Online Library _zOnline access link to the resource _uhttps://doi.org/10.1002/9781118314999
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