Editing Arthur Jensen (section)

===''Clocking the Mind''===
''Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences'' (2006) deals with [[mental chronometry]] (MC), and covers the speed with which the brain processes information and different ways this is measured. Jensen argues mental chronometry represents a true natural science of mental ability, which is in contrast to IQ, which merely represents an interval (ranking) scale and thus possesses no true ratio scale properties.

Joseph Glicksohn wrote in a 2007 review for ''[[Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology]]'' that "The book should be perused with care in order to ensure the further profitable use of [reaction time] in both experimental and differential lines of research."<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1037/cep2007_2_154 |title=Review of Arthur R. Jensen (2006)--Clocking the mind: Mental chronometry and individual differences |journal=Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=154–158 |year=2007 |last1=Glicksohn |first1=Joseph }}</ref>

[[Douglas K. Detterman|Douglas Detterman]] reviewed it in 2008 for ''[[Intelligence (journal)|Intelligence]]'', writing that "the book would make a good introduction to the field of the measurement of individual differences in cognitive tasks for beginning graduate students."<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.intell.2007.08.001 |title=Arthur R. Jensen, Clocking the mind: Mental chronometry and individual differences, Elsevier, Oxford (2007) |year=2008 |last1=Detterman |first1=Douglas K. |journal=Intelligence |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=491–493 }}</ref> [[Eric-Jan Wagenmakers]] and [[Han van der Maas]], also writing for ''Intelligence'' in 2018, faulted the book for omitting the work by mathematical psychologists, advocating standardization of chronometric methods (which the authors consider problematic because it can hide method variance), and because it does not discuss topics such as the [[G factor (psychometrics)#Mutualism|mutualism model]] of the ''g-''factor and the [[Flynn effect]]. They describe the book's breadth as useful, despite its simplistic approach.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.intell.2007.09.001 |title=Jensen A.R., Clocking the mind: Mental chronometry and individual differences, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2006) (pp. xi+ 272) |isbn=978-0-08-044939-5|year=2008 |last1=Wagenmakers |first1=Eric-Jan |journal=Intelligence |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=493–494 |last2=Van Der Maas |first2=Han }}</ref> Jensen was on the editorial board of ''Intelligence'' when these reviews were published.