There is no such thing as culture-free intelligence
- PMID: 36098407
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21001710
There is no such thing as culture-free intelligence
Abstract
Cognitive scientists and psychometricians are unaccustomed to thinking about culture, often treating their measures - memory, vocabulary, intelligence - as natural kinds. Relying on these measures, behavioral geneticists likewise seem to not wonder about their origin and cultural provenance. I argue that complex human traits - the sort we are most interested in measuring - are cultural products. We can measure them and their heritability, but to conclude that what we have measured is unbound to a time and place is hubris.
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Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics.Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 13;45:e182. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000036. Behav Brain Sci. 2022. PMID: 36098400
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Cultural evolution of genetic heritability.Behav Brain Sci. 2021 May 21;45:e152. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000893. Behav Brain Sci. 2021. PMID: 34016199
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