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Amid all the overexcitement about artificial intelligence, there is little room for public consideration of mind-blowing findings on natural intelligence.
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Mental health isn’t just the absence of illness.
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Gould believed this bias was rampant in particular scholarly fields, and the most prominent target for his criticism in The Mismeasure of Man was the study of intelligence, especially IQ testing and the genetics of mental ability.