I finally got around the writing up a review of Hive Mind, by Garett Jones. Short version is that the book is excellent, and well worth reading. I’ll get into more detail below, but the book explores the importance of cognitive skills (as measured by IQ) for economic development.
There are several reasons to like it. First, the book has absolutely no fat on it. This is a model of concise explanatory writing. Most books that try to bring recent research to the public end up bloated. Not this one. Five stars for clarity here.
Onto the content. There are really two parts to the book. First, Jones establishes that “cognitive skills” are in fact highly correlated with economic development, and a subsidiary part of this is establishing that IQ is just one of many ways of measuring “cognitive skills”.
I’m not going to go into a lot…
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