The Intelligence Trap Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
Reviews
Enlightening, balanced, and fully informative!
David Robson segmented the book into different sections, each elaborating upon the ‘Intelligence Trap’ and IQ at various levels, from theoretical to group functioning and applications for solutions. It was a great outline for providing a strong breadth of understanding throughout the book, and allowing the reader to develop a stronger understanding of the subject because of the structuring.
I also really appreciated the use of real-life application as examples of how intelligence-based biases can impact our behaviour, and the consequences of this. Plus, it helped provide support to the theory, making for an even more interesting read!
Regardless of if you’re into IQ, or psychology, or anything along these lines, Robson struck a healthy balance of explanation that would appeal for a range of people’s expertise levels. Would certainly recommend.
Highlights
The twenty-first century presents complex problems that require a wiser way of reasoning, one that recognises our current limitations, tolerates ambiguity and uncertainty, balances multiple perspectives, and bridges diverse areas of expertise.
'A lot of the cornerstones, the building blocks that make the expert an expert and allow them to do thir job efficiently and quickly, also entail vulnerabilities: you can't have one without the other’
Dr. Itiel Dror, Cognitive Neuroscientist
[following studies on motivated reasoning] smart people do not apply their superior intelligence fairly, but instead use it 'opportunistically' to promote their own interests and protect the beliefs that are most important to their identities. Intelligence can be a tool for propaganda rather than truth-seeking.