Intelligence

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Brain vs. Brawn
3. Chapter Two - The Invention of Stupid
4. Chapter Three - The Birth of the IQ Test
5. Chapter Four - The Eugenics Machine
6. Chapter Five - Classrooms and Sorting Hats
7. Chapter Six - The Race IQ Wars
8. Chapter Seven - The Myth of the Single Score
9. Chapter Eight - Emotional Intelligence
10. Chapter Nine - Intelligence and the Machine
11. Chapter Ten - The Culture Code
12. Chapter Eleven - Intelligence as Prophecy
13. Chapter Twelve - You Are Not Your Number
14. Chapter Thirteen - Burn the Scantron

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU NEVER SEE it, but it sees you. It’s baked into your school record. Lurking behind your job interview. Whispered in reports. Inked in diagnostic codes. It lives in filing cabinets, standardized tests, military assessments, college applications, and psych evaluations. A number. A ranking. A score. You don’t ask where it came from. You just accept it. Because the system already did. Some kids got tracked into honors. Others into “remedial.” Some applicants got scholarships. Others got denied. Some immigrants got welcomed. Others got rejected at the border. Some soldiers got officer training. Others got sent to die. The number decided. And yet no one ever stopped to ask the only...