The Hidden Secrets of Intelligence Revealed
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“The Hidden Secrets of Intelligence Revealed” explains why a child’s intelligence cannot be related to the intelligences witnessed in members of their family line. For while we reason that intelligence is some part inherited and some part developed, we too little understand the cause of this reasoning, and how it existed long before we discovered the meaning of genetic diversity. Intelligence we are to find is a word that was invented to explain how differences in mental ability could be compared. Such comparison is not innocent, because it underlies political strategies that seek to ensure a social or ethnic continuity in a society. Yet, as we are to find, there is no actual evidence that the mental ability of one can be said to be greater or lesser than that of another because of inheritance -- providing we do not confuse this issue with a genetic mutation such as that of Down syndrome. Perhaps more to the point, we need to know that we don’t actually know, or all agree, with what the word intelligence means. It is a vague description that we use far too easily to explain some limitation that appears in one, when we compare them to another. If, then, we are to understand why intelligence is not inherited, we need to understand the very long history behind why we today believe it can be measured -- and indeed why we think the greater clarity or the more confusion of a student derives from genetic diversity.As we discuss this, so will we understand that the whole concept of the Intelligence Quotient is only an idea that intelligence can be measured. The word IQ gives no suggestion as to what intelligence is or how it forms. Yet, because of the way we have been cultivated to think, when we use the term IQ we do think of intelligence as being largely inherited.To understand how the myth of a measurable intelligence arose, this book examines how Galton postulated the idea of inherited ability, as a political weapon to
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