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Date: Tuesday 12 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Nisbett
Discussants: Dr Hyun-Jung Lee, Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Chair: Dr Bradley Franks
Are humans getting smarter? Are some groups smarter than others? Are some groups getting smarter faster than others? What are the possibilities for increasing the rate of growth of human intelligence? Hint: Science, mathematics, logic and philosophy have generated concepts in the past 150 years of great power which have yet to escape into the reasoning toolkits of laypeople.
Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and Co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. "The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." - Malcolm Gladwell
Hyun-Jung Lee is Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management, LSE. Her research is on multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and cross-cultural management.
Michael Muthukrishna (@mmuthukrishna) is an Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology. His research focuses on the evolution of humans and human culture and the many implications of these psychological and evolutionary processes.
Bradley Franks is Associate Professor at LSE.
The Department of Social Psychology (@PsychologyLSE) is a leading international centre dedicated to consolidating and expanding the contribution of social psychology to the understanding and knowledge of key social, economic, political and cultural issues.

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@RapunzelASMR 7 лет назад

those first questions seem like a knowledge test, but not an IQ test. If you havent learned about something, like that buffalo stuff, you will never know the answer. IQ tests are about recognizing patterns and such.

@yttean98 5 лет назад

Informative lecture, thanks, I learned something here.

@wagfinpis 7 лет назад

that was a great motion captured moment there. very interesting questions, and closing. this could not have been composed any better than the very candid toning of the fitness for the multicultral question... there was a stark and palpable contrasts that illuminated the intellectual cap of our, none the less esteemed, Doctor. i do not feel like the work or the study will prove to be in conflict with any answers the future brings, but will is more likely to prove to be another valuable vector in our (our species) continuation to discover a/the way...

@eave01 4 года назад

46:20 Tools that everyone in the room has heard of: Statistics Probability Scientific methodology Decision theory Epistemology Standard deviation Correlation Randomized control group Cost benefit analysis Opportunity costs Sunk costs

@lawrencemichael663 3 года назад

Does the social timeline count? Could be the more pertinent question here given that people from the hunter-gatherer to the nomad to the "ordinary" contemporary people with the speaker as an example of - do exist even in the same calendar year. Within what we can call culture given the entry of the organized human collective (the city-state as an example) and from where?

@Idalych 6 лет назад

Nisbette throwin' shade at Murray.

@denisdaly1708 2 года назад

Murray was a sociologist, and knows nothing about IQ

@sjtugaorong 7 лет назад

A little hard to follow without his slides in view, but overall a fascinating talk!

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

The Zulu tribe was 4200 YEARS behind the Europeans in terms of technology when the two groups fought in 1879.

@cedricburkhart3738 5 лет назад

Did he just lie to us? 🤔

@kevin.afton_ 6 лет назад

Brothers and sisters in the same family can have different intelligence. How do you explain that M Nisbett if its not genetic?

@shagybaxter 3 года назад

Siblings can easily have different upbringings.

@kevin.afton_ 3 года назад

@@shagybaxter In the same family? I doubt it.

@shagybaxter 3 года назад

@@kevin.afton_ @Kevin Afton Random example but this came up the other day. My mate said his parents didn't realise all the middle class kids were having private tuition. He failed his entrance exam, two years later his brother had tution and passed.

@marcv2648 2 года назад

A lot of cultural coping going on here. A cynical read, according to his premise, white European culture has produced the highest IQs in the world for the past 2500 years. He argues this is not genetic, but in fact cultural "tricks" that have systematically produced high IQs, and have been ingrained into Western culture for millennia. To put a finer point on it, if you want to be more intelligent, start thinking like white people. He actually hypothesizes an Ashkenazi Jew spacial intelligence disability of 95 in otherwise highly intelligent Jews. Why not compare that "disability" against some other ethnic groups with much lower scores, whom he would not consider to be disabled? Of course this discussion would not be complete without the intelligence joke inserted about the Republican Party. Then he compares support for Donald Trump with Nazism (seriously). LSE policy, I'm sure.

@gsmith5929 4 года назад

Professor Nisbett uses the low SES argument to explain away cultural (code for racial) differences in intelligence. Did he ever stop to consider that lower intelligence is most likely why a person has low socioeconomic status? That 15 points may not seem like much, but it gives the +15 holder a huge competitive advantage.

@denisdaly1708 2 года назад

If u listened, or better watch a more extended talk he gave in another video you would know that it is mostly due to SES. Poverty causes stress, which hurts IQ, and reduces expectations, which reduces IQ. Now in countries like Ireland and South Korea, because of high mobility, positive environments make a difference. There is no social mobility in the US, a political social problem.

@denisdaly1708 2 года назад

Or to put it another way, because of the inequality, in the US it keeps many people dumb.

@IAMreynofficial 6 лет назад

Some professor. Misused the word alibi.

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

The academic achievement gap is going down BECAUSE THEY ARE PASSING BLACKS AND HISPANICS THAT CANT READ AT GEADE LEVEL JUST TO GET THEM OUT OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

@AA-ul9qh 3 года назад

How can that verbose lady miss the point of culture at home vs. general society!?!? & She implied being a teacher of sort?!!!!

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

No country in Africa ever invented the wheel.

@TheNerdMan2 4 года назад

No just the pyramids

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

@@TheNerdMan2 The ancient Egyptians have their origin in the Levant (modern-day Palestine, in Israel), and they migrated into the Nile Delta and the Sinai, bringing with them their goats and sheep. The ancient Egyptians were closely related to ancient and modern European populations, as well as ancient populations in what is now Turkey and Iran. The sub-Saharan admixture that is now evident in the modern Egyptian population is a recent occurrence, which took place during and after the Roman period. Do some basic research.

@TheNerdMan2 4 года назад

@@DaveWard-xc7vd your statement was NO country in AFRICA. how does my response.conflict with that? You should have said, no race or the direct ancestors of, blah, blah, blah didn't invent the wheel. Or I could.say American didn't win the second world war. It was actually western Europeans, Africans.etc who migrated to America etc etc. Egyptians were in Africa.

@umiiAfro 4 года назад

Well, that's just a misleading statement. Here is a quote from ' Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early Colonial British West Africa' by Chaves et al 'The fact that wheeled transportation was not used in sub-Saharan Africa until the early colonial period is paradoxical because it is well established that African societies knew about the wheel from the early modern period onward. Wheeled carriages were in use in Dahomey from at least the eighteenth century and were even produced there. Nevertheless, wheeled vehicles did not spread out of ceremonial uses with the exception of a small amount of military use.'

@umiiAfro 4 года назад

@@DaveWard-xc7vd This too is a little misleading. Scholars reject the notion that Ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin color varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia, who in various eras rose to power in Ancient Egypt. This is from the nature paper you most likely cited by Verena et al: 'Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods' : 'However, we note that all our genetic data were obtained from a single site in Middle Egypt and may not be representative for all of ancient Egypt. It is possible that populations in the south of Egypt were more closely related to those of Nubia and had a higher sub-Saharan genetic component, in which case the argument for an influx of sub-Saharan ancestries after the Roman Period might only be partially valid and have to be nuanced. Throughout Pharaonic history there was intense interaction between Egypt and Nubia, ranging from trade to conquest and colonialism, and there is compelling evidence for ethnic complexity within households with Egyptian men marrying Nubian women and vice versa51,52,53. Clearly, more genetic studies on ancient human remains from southern Egypt and Sudan are needed before apodictic statements can be made.'

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

So genetics plays no part in determining intelligence, UNLESS you are Anastasia Jewish? This guy is a crack pot. Then there is the response of the audience to the Republican jokes, clear evidence of liberal bias.

@kevin.afton_ 6 лет назад

What a nonsense! We have a great number of geniuses coming from poor backgrounds.

@DaveWard-xc7vd 4 года назад

Nope. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 881 individuals, of whom 15 (1.7%) - were black recipients. As of 2015, only 25 Nobel Prize winners have been Latinos and Hispanics.