INTELLIGENCE AND HOW TO GET IT: Why Schools and Cultures Count, by Richard E. Nisbett (Norton, $17.95).
In "Intelligence and How to Get It," he offers a meticulous and eye-opening critique of hereditarianism.
The voluntary sector could provide some useful intelligence about how to integrate care, but organisations are not always involved in the planning processes in their local areas.
They bring a welcome voice of sanity after a disastrous failure of planning intelligence about how to make a coherent place out of this ragbag of parts.
As the elite of American intelligence debates how to react to Russia's latest aggression in Chechnya, Jack is rushed by his mentor, William Cabot (Morgan Freeman), the director of central intelligence, into the inner circle to give his input.
Individuals can struggle their way free of that through experience and the use of intelligence; but how to make it entirely a thing of the past, I don't claim to know.
Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has just demolished this view in a superb new book, "Intelligence and How to Get It," which also offers terrific advice for addressing poverty and inequality in America.
That's a big area of research that involves big data and recording as much information about a situation as possible, and then having the artificial intelligence decide how to manufacture things.
