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

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Documents & Articles:
1. Child IQ and 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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OUTLINE:
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(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

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Richard Hire on a science of human intelligence.

0:05.2

This is a highly controversial topic, but a critically important one for understanding

0:09.4

the human mind.

0:10.8

I hope you will join me in not trying away from difficult topics like this, and instead,

0:17.8

let us try to navigate it with empathy, rigor, and grace.

0:21.8

If you're watching this on video now, I should mention that I'm recording this introduction

0:27.3

in an undisclosed location somewhere in the world.

0:30.4

I'm safe and happy, and life is beautiful.

0:34.7

And now a quick use that can mention of each sponsor.

0:37.2

Check them out in the description.

0:38.8

It's the best way to support this podcast.

0:41.1

We've got calm for meditation, lean-node for cloud computing, buy optimizers for health,

0:47.4

simply safe for security, and masterclass for inspiration.

0:51.1

Choose wisely, my friends.

0:52.9

And now, until the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle.

0:56.3

I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors.

1:00.4

I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too.

1:03.6

This show is brought to you by Calm.

1:05.9

A meditation and mental wellness app, over 100 million people around the world use Calm

1:12.6

to take care of their minds.

1:14.1

I'm a big believer, I'm a big fan of meditation in general, and there's all kinds of ways

1:19.3

to achieve that state of mind, where it's complete focus, where there's focus on the

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