Reddit reviews What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

They cite Rationality and the Reflective Mind, which looks potentially interesting.

> Stanovich argues that to fully characterize differences in rational thinking, we need to replace dual-process theories with tripartite models of cognition. Using a unique individual differences approach, he shows that the traditional second system (System 2) of dual-process theory must be further divided into the reflective mind and the algorithmic mind. Distinguishing them will allow us to better appreciate the significant differences in their key functions: The key function of the reflective mind is to detect the need to interrupt autonomous processing and to begin simulation activities, whereas that of the algorithmic mind is to sustain the processing of decoupled secondary representations in cognitive simulation.

The same author also wrote What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, which also looks pretty good.

> He mentions Georges Bush, Jr. who was very intelligent as measured by IQ tests. But, he was not a proficient thinker as he was dogmatic, ill informed, impatient, and prone to rash decisions sometimes associated with devastating outcomes. Stanovich describes Bush condition as Dysrationalia or someone who is less rational than his IQ would suggest.

I'd note at least a couple of things about IQ though:

1. IQ can change throughout your life depending on the emotional problems with which you're dealing at any given time. Such problems have a negative impact on IQ. I have been tested several times at different ages and have varied by at least 10 points.
   
   
2. Unless you define intelligence as MAMBIT (the mental abilities measure by intelligence tests) and nothing else, IQ tests do not do a good job of measuring intelligence. If you define intelligence as MAMBIT, then we need another term for the smarts that are not included in MAMBIT, such as critical and veridical thinking.
   
   It may be that high IQ is more of a prerequisite for intelligence than it is intelligence itself. Or, there may even be quite smart people who test poorly on IQ tests (and proxies like SATs).
   
   P.S. Good book on the subject:
   
   What Intelligence Tests Miss

Here are two useful articles:
http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-critical-thinking.html
http://www.parentingscience.com/critical-thinking-in-children.html

The second article also gives some examples of flawed thinking that you should watch out for in educational software and curricula (avoid or point out, depending on the age of the child), e.g. that squares are not rectangles, or that all diamonds are squares, or other nonsense.

For your own thinking, I'd recommend [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0300164629?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00](What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought)

> What about highly intelligent theists who were once atheists? Those people do actually exist as well. I know one. He's solidly among the best and brightest

I too know one but he is atheist.

> And, I've had long and heated debates with him. He's a thinking theist and practicing Catholic who was once an atheist.

But what caused him to shift to Christianity?! That is very sad and disappointing to hear and to see him abandoning his reasoning and critical thinking.

> I do not label theists as being less intelligent with low IQ
> I call bullshit! Look at your own title. It says exactly that in no uncertain terms!

The tile was clearly objective and not subjective. I did not include my opinion.

> You said: "Atheists have higher IQs than Theists." AND "Theists are less intelligent than Atheists." It's right there in your title. How do you deny that?

I did not said: ''I said'' or ''I think'' or ''According to my own point of view''...etc My title was neutral.

> And, you didn't say that or ask others for their opinion or try to actually start a discussion about that because ... ?

I did and I was looking for answers from theists. I deleted my post anyway because I realized the majority anyway of both theists and atheists will misunderstand what I was seeking. What I was seeking is to get an idea (Not a convincing idea) what causes the Theists to believe and thus resulting in low IQ by suppressing and blocking their critical thinking.

> https://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/0300164629

Sounds like an interesting book to read.

> Do feel free to try again with a new more intelligent post.

Yes I will. Feel free to comment on my next post. :)

> This one was a total failure.

Yes I know. I deleted that horrible post anyway.