Intelligence, Race, and Genetics

dc.contributor.authorSternberg, Robert J
dc.contributor.authorGrigorenko, Elena L
dc.contributor.authorKidd, Kenneth K
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:34Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:34Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractIn this article, the authors argue that the overwhelming portion of the literature on intelligence, race, and genetics is based on folk taxonomies rather than scientific analysis. They suggest that because theorists of intelligence disagree as to what it is, any consideration of its relationships to other constructs must be tentative at best. They further argue that race is a social construction with no scientific definition. Thus, studies of the relationship between race and other constructs may serve social ends but cannot serve scientific ends. No gene has yet been conclusively linked to intelligence, so attempts to provide a compelling genetic link of race to intelligence are not feasible at this time. The authors also show that heritability, a behavior-genetic concept, is inadequate in regard to providing such a link.
dc.description.urihttp://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/60/1/46/
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/tbq9-npw4
dc.identifier.citationSternberg, Robert J and Grigorenko, Elena L and Kidd, Kenneth K (2005) Intelligence, Race, and Genetics. American Psychologist, 60 (1). pp. 46-59.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 515
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22602
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectstudies
dc.subjectGenetics and Race
dc.subjectintelligence
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectgenetics
dc.titleIntelligence, Race, and Genetics
dc.typeArticle

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