The g Factor
Encyclopedia
The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability is a book by Arthur Jensen
on the general factor of human mental ability
(or g).
Arthur Jensen
Arthur Robert Jensen is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.He is a major proponent...
on the general factor of human mental ability
General intelligence factor
The g factor, where g stands for general intelligence, is a statistic used in psychometrics to model the mental ability underlying results of various tests of cognitive ability...
(or g).
External links
- A précis, reviews and commentary, PsycoloquyPsycoloquyPsycoloquy was a refereed international, interdisciplinary open access journal sponsored from 1990-2002 by the American Psychological Association and indexed by APA's PsycINFO and the Institute for Scientific Information....
, Volumes 10, 1999 and 11, 2000 - Stalking the wild taboo - review of The g Factor in Mankind QuarterlyMankind QuarterlyThe Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to physical and cultural anthropology and is currently published by the Council for Social and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology,...
, Vol. 39 (Spring 1999) No. 3, 337-354 - Review by J. Philippe RushtonJ. Philippe RushtonJean Philippe Rushton is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r/K selection theory to humans in his book Race,...
- The Half-Full glass - a review by Steve SailerSteve SailerSteven Ernest Sailer is an American journalist and movie critic for The American Conservative, a blogger, a VDARE.com columnist, and a former correspondent for UPI. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports.-Personal life:Sailer grew up...
for National ReviewNational ReviewNational Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...