All Sense and No Nonsense, or Where Should We Go From Here

Reviews the book, Sense and Nonsense About IQ: The Case for Uniqueness by Charles Locurto (1991). Locurto's three purposes in writing this book were (a) to examine the history and the bases of those extreme views, (b) to review and critically evaluate the data and the interpretations of the data bearing on those positions, and then (c) to propose and discuss, no less critically, the notion of uniqueness, a term he uses to refer to a conceptual framework within which we may, perhaps, develop a more accurate and detailed understanding of the nature and the sources of individual differences in IQ test scores. Locurto's treatment of the IQ issue deserves to be widely read and carefully considered. His analyses of the data and especially his exposition and analysis of the fact that the variables we have studied so far leave a major portion of the variance unexplained should help stimulate the kind of research needed to identify and measure those elusive other influences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)