The rationality quotient : toward a test of rational thinking
Keith E. Stanovich (Author), Richard F. West (Author), Maggie E. Toplak (Author)
Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgements and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence is not the same as the capacity for rational thinking. The Rationality Quotient explains that these two traits, often (and incorrectly) thought of as one, refer to different cognitive functions. The standard IQ test, the authors argue, doesn't measure any of the broad components of rationality - adaptive responding, good judgement, and good decision making
Print Book, English, 2016
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016