{"id":919,"date":"2019-02-18T21:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/?p=919"},"modified":"2019-02-18T21:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:14:32","slug":"book-reviews-of-straight-talk-about-mental-tests-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Book reviews of Straight Talk About Mental Tests (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This relatively short non-technical book by Jensen stands out from the rest. It received substantially positive reviews in the academic journals and is worth reading to this day for inspiration. Below is a list of reviews I found. Many of these appear to have never been cited once, which is a pity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Carroll, J. B. (1982). <a href=\"http:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Carroll-1982-review.pdf\">Can We Defuse the IQ Controversy?<\/a>. <i>Psyccritiques<\/i>, <i>27<\/i>(7), 528-529.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Layne, C. (1982). <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/openview\/68b49783d9b95fe39a71222a67570bf3\/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=1819447\">A. Jensen, Straight Talk About Mental Tests (Book Review).<\/a> <i>International Social Science Review<\/i>, <i>57<\/i>(2), 109.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Kline, P. (1982). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry\/article\/straight-talk-about-mental-tests-by-arthur-r-jensen-new-york-the-free-press-1981-pp-269-1295\/8D59117B5ADEA912F39007C27EC8AEDE\">Straight Talk about Mental Tests. By Arthur R. Jensen. New York: The Free Press. 1981. Pp 269. $12.95<\/a>. <i>The British Journal of Psychiatry<\/i>, <i>140<\/i>(5), 544-545.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Clarke, A. M. (1982). <a href=\"http:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clarke1982.pdf\">The Great IQ Debate: new light<\/a>. <i>Educational Psychology<\/i>, <i>2<\/i>(1), 87-93.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There appears to be a rather large number of other reviews by prominent authors, but <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.dk\/scholar?start=30&amp;q=%22Straight+Talk+about+Mental+Tests%22&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0,5&amp;as_yhi=1983\">Google Scholar<\/a> can&#8217;t seem to find me even the journal names they were published in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This relatively short non-technical book by Jensen stands out from the rest. It received substantially positive reviews in the academic journals and is worth reading to this day for inspiration. Below is a list of reviews I found. Many of these appear to have never been cited once, which is a pity. Carroll, J. B. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}