Intelligence - time for open debate

摘要

In the 25th anniversary issue of The Psychologist the status of intelligence research was raised by Paul Devonshire, who called for a BPS-wide discussion of its applications and implications for society (Letters, January 2013). Coincidently, in the same issue, there was a collection of articles on British individual differences research, which included one by Ian Deary and John Maltby that amply attested to the reality and relevance of intelligence, and the important insights it is yielding in the field of cognitive epidemioloev.