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Intelligence

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First  Edition©2021  Barclay Barrios

ISBN:9781319325879

ISBN:9781319207205

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An affordable and versatile reader that will make you smarter about intelligence.
Do you ever feel like someone is judging your intelligence? Where do those judgments come from and what do they mean? Those are some of the questions asked by Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, through readings that explore intelligence in people, animals, machines, groups, prodigies, and more. Readings from journalists, teachers, scientists, historians, and others help you examine these concepts from a diverse range of perspectives, learn to write effectively about them, and understand more about this important concept. 

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Table of Contents

Introduction for Students

Chapter 1: How Smart Are Animals?

Frans De Waal, Magic Wells

Jane Goodall, At Long Last I Belong

Dinitia Smith, A Thinking Bird or Just Another Birdbrain?

Philip Sopher, What Animals Teach Us About Measuring Intelligence

Rachel Monroe, The Cat Psychic

Alicia Puglionesi, How Counting Horses and Reading Dogs Convinced Us Animals Could Think

John Horgan, Do Fish Suffer?

Chapter 2: Are the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Worth the Rewards?
Ray Kurzweil, What Is AI, Anyway?

Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Tim Adams, Like Children Playing with a Bomb

Adam Elkus, Meet the Bots

Will Knight, The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Allie Shaw, Alexa, Siri, Sophia: Deconstructing AI’s Subliminal Gender Bias

Cade Metz, Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy – and Pricey – Art

Chapter 3: Is There More Than One Kind of Intelligence?
Howard Gardner, The Idea of Multiple Intelligences

Daniel Goleman, When Smart Is Dumb

Adam Grant, The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence

Robert Sternberg, What Is "Successful" Intelligence?

Russ Alloway and Tracy Alloway, The End of IQ (and the Dawn of Working Memory)

Philip Ball, "Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and Realities

John Mayer, We Need More Tests, Not Fewer

Chapter 4: Does Identity Determine Intelligence?
Malcolm Gladwell, None of the Above

Jennifer Lee, The Truth about Asian Americans’ Success

William Saletan, Stop Talking about Race and IQ

Diane Halpern, Sex Differences in Intelligence

Lily Rothman, A Cultural History of Mansplaining

Mark Joseph Stern, Are Gay People Smarter Than Straight People?

Mike Rose, Blue Collar Brilliance

Chapter 5: What Is Extreme Intelligence?
Claudia Kalb, What Makes a Genius?

Daniel Pink, What Kind of Genius Are You?

Matthew Francis, Cognitive Celebrity

Iriana Aristarkova, Genius and Evil

Emily Atkin, The Sexism of "Genius"

Sam Riches, The Genius Problem

David Z. Hambrick, What Makes a Prodigy?

Sentence Guide for Academic Writers

Index of Authors and Titles

Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios (PhD, Rutgers University) is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the body, queer theory, and pedagogy. He is past Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is the author of Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers and Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader.