Editing Arthur Jensen (section)

==Books==

=== ''Bias in Mental Testing'' ===
''[[Bias in Mental Testing]]'' (1980) is a book examining the question of test bias in commonly used [[standardized test]]s. The book runs almost 800 pages and has been called "exhaustive" by three researchers who reviewed the field 19 years after the book's publication.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Robert T.|last2=Reynolds|first2=Cecil R.|last3=Whitaker|first3=Jean S.|s2cid=46561407|title=Bias in mental testing since Bias in Mental Testing.|journal=School Psychology Quarterly|volume=14|issue=3|pages=208–238|doi=10.1037/h0089007|year=1999}}</ref> It reviewed in detail the available evidence about [[Intelligence quotient#Test bias|test bias]] across major US racial/ethnic groups. Jensen concluded that "the currently most widely used standardized tests of mental ability -- IQ, scholastic aptitude, and achievement tests -- are, by and large, not biased against any of the native-born English-speaking minority groups on which the amount of research evidence is sufficient for an objective determination of bias, if the tests were in fact biased. For most nonverbal standardized tests, this generalization is not limited to English-speaking minorities." (p. ix). Jensen also published a summary of the book the same year which was a target article in the journal ''[[Behavioral and Brain Sciences]]'' to which 27 commentaries were printed along with the author's reply.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/s0140525x00005161 |title=Précis of Bias in Mental Testing |journal=Behavioral and Brain Sciences |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=325–333 |year=1980 |last1=Jensen |first1=Arthur R. |s2cid=145366637 }}</ref>

=== ''Straight Talk about Mental Tests'' ===
''Straight Talk about Mental Tests'' (1981) is a book written about psychometrics for the general public.  [[John Bissell Carroll|John B. Carroll]] reviewed it favorably in 1982, saying it was a useful summary of the issues,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1037/021298 |title=Can We Defuse the IQ Controversy? |journal=Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews |volume=27 |issue=7 |pages=528–529 |year=1982 |last1=Carroll |first1=John B. }}</ref> as did Paul Cline writing for the ''[[British Journal of Psychiatry]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S0007125000136682 |title=''Straight Talk about Mental Tests''. By Arthur R. Jensen. New York: The Free Press. 1981. Pp 269. $12.95 |first1=Paul |last1=Kline |journal=The British Journal of Psychiatry |volume=140 |issue=5 |date=May 1982 |pages=544–5 |s2cid=150270344 }}</ref> In 2016, [[Richard J. Haier]] called it "a clear examination of all issues surrounding mental testing".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Neuroscience of Intelligence|last=Haier|first=Richard J.|date=2016|isbn=9781316105771|location=New York, NY|oclc=951742581}}</ref>

===''The g Factor''===
''[[The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability|The ''g'' Factor: The Science of Mental Ability]]'' (1998) is a book on the [[general intelligence factor]] (''g''). The book deals with the intellectual history of g and various models of how to conceptualize intelligence, and with the biological correlates of g, its heritability, and its practical predictive power.

===''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.