#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/rjhaier Richard's Website:
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survival to 79: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491698/
2. Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth:
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:06)
- Measuring human intelligence (22:34) - IQ tests (45:23) - College
entrance exams (53:59) - Genetics (59:58) - Enhancing intelligence
(1:07:27) - The Bell Curve (1:19:58) - Race differences (1:39:11) -
Bell curve criticisms (1:48:21) - Intelligence and life success
(1:57:57) - Flynn effect (2:02:49) - Nature vs nuture (2:29:42) -
Testing artificial intelligence (2:41:46) - Advice (2:45:53) -
Mortality