How To Improve Your Mind: 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1

Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15

2 Logic and Moral Debate – Attacks on Blacks 17

3 Getting Rid of Tautologies – No Private Clubs 24

4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences – be Judgmental 32

5 But that is Unnatural – Words Best Never Said 41

Part 2 The Truth about People 49

6 Random Sample – Quality Not Size 51

7 Intelligence Quotient – Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56

8 Intelligence Quotient – and the Black/White IQ Gap 62

9 Control Group – How Studying People Changes Them 69

10 The Sociologist ’ s Fallacy – Ignoring the Real World 75

Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85

11 Creating a Market – Not a Frankenstein 87

12 Market Forces – How they Take their Revenge 96

13 Market Worship – No Ritual Sacrifices 108

14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117

15 What is to be Done? 130

Part 4 Enemies of Science 139

16 Reality – What Scientists Really Say About Science 141

17 History, Science, and Evolution – Only One Kind of Each 152

Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163

18 Understanding Nations – Understanding Anyone 165

19 Four Cases – Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173

20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183

Index 189