Hive Mind (book)

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Hive Mind
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First edition
Author Garett Jones
LanguageEnglish
Published2015
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages224
ISBN 9-7815-0360-0676

Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own is a book by Garett Jones, published in 2015 by Stanford University Press. It explores the science behind the financial payoff of high Individual IQ and the related impact of thinking like a group. The book claims that a nation's average IQ is multiple times more important for the nation's prosperity than an individual's IQ is important for their overall prosperity. The logic is that collective IQ non-linearly improves a country's fortunes via multiple channels, such as better institutions, etc. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Synopsis

Da Vinci Effect

The book relates personal intelligence to group intelligence with a concept the author calls the da Vinci Effect. This concept relates the general intelligence of an individual performing different tasks to the abilities of members of a group performing different tasks.

Reviews

The book was reviewed by Slate Star Codex [5] and Stuart Ritchie. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Jones, Garett (November 2016). Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-1-5036-0067-6 . Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Whalen, E. L. (April 2016). "Hive mind: how your nation's IQ matters so much more than your own". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 53 (8): 1200–1201. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.195632 (inactive 1 July 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  3. ↑ Wade, Nicholas (2015-12-18). "To Fight Poverty, Raise IQ Scores". Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 266 (144): A15.
  4. ↑ Dutton, Edward (July 2016). "GarrettJonesHive mind: How your nation's IQ matters so much more than your own2016Stanford University Press205(ISBN 978-0-8047-8596-9)". Personality & Individual Differences. 96: 279. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.038.
  5. ↑ "Book Review: Hive Mind". 9 December 2015.
  6. ↑ Ritchie, Stuart J. (March 2016). "Book review". Intelligence. 55: 14. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2015.12.007.
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