Heiner Rindermann (born 12 March 1966) is a German psychologist and educational researcher.

Academic career

Rindermann received a Ph.D. in psychology in 1995 on the subject of teacher evaluations from Heidelberg University and completed a Habilitation in 2005 on the topic of teacher quality at University of Koblenz and Landau. In September 2007 he was appointed professor for evaluation and methodology of developmental psychology at the University of Graz. Since April 2010, Rindermann holds the Chair of Educational and Developmental Psychology at the Technical University of Chemnitz.[1][2]

Rindermann serves on the editorial board of the journal Intelligence, and has been a contributor to Mankind Quarterly, which is commonly described as a white supremacist journal and purveyor of scientific racism.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He has also helped to organize conferences for the International Society for Intelligence Research.[3] Rindermann attended the 2018 London Conference on Intelligence, and was one of 15 attendees to collaborate on a letter defending the conference following media reports of its ties to white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and racist pseudoscience.[3][9][10][11][12][13] The letter was published in Intelligence in 2018.[3][13]

Research

Rindermann does research in educational psychology, developmental psychology, differential psychology, pedagogy, and clinical psychology.[14][15][16][17]

Intelligence and education

A 2007 study by Rindermann found a high correlation between the results of international student assessment studies including TIMSS, PIRLS, and PISA, and national average IQ scores.[18][19] The results were broadly similar to those in Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's book IQ and the Wealth of Nations. According to Earl B. Hunt, due to there being far more data available, Rindermann's analysis was more reliable than those by Lynn and Vanhanen. By measuring the relationship between educational data and social well-being over time, Rindermann also performed a causal analysis, finding that nations investing in education leads to increased well-being later on.[20]

Some of Rindermann's work has concentrated on the "smart fraction" theory, which states that the prosperity and performance of a society depends on the proportion of the population that is above a particular threshold of intelligence, with the threshold point being well above the general median intelligence level in most societies.[21][22][23]

Rindermann's book Cognitive capitalism: Human capital and the wellbeing of nations was released by Cambridge University Press in 2018.[24]

References

  1. ^ "Heiner Rindermann, Autorenprofil". zpid.de (in German). Retrieved October 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Rindermann, Heiner. "Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Heiner Rindermann" (in German). Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Van Der Merwe, Ben (19 February 2018). "It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously". New Statesman. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. ^ Jackson Jr., John P.; Winston, Andrew S. (7 October 2020). "The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence". Review of General Psychology. 25 (1): 3–26. doi:10.1177/1089268020953622. S2CID 225143131.
  5. ^ Joe L. Kincheloe, et al., Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, p. 39
  6. ^ Ibrahim G. Aoudé, The ethnic studies story: politics and social movements in Hawaiʻi, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, pg. 111
  7. ^ Kenneth Leech, Race, Church Publishing, Inc., 2005, pg. 14
  8. ^ William H. Tucker, The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, University of Illinois Press, 2002, pg. 2
  9. ^ "UCL launches investigation into secret eugenics conference". Times Higher Education. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  10. ^ Daley, Jim (2018-01-12). "Secret Eugenics Conference Uncovered at University College London". The Scientist. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  11. ^ Bennett, Rosemary (11 January 2018). "University College London under fire over its conferences on 'eugenics'". The Times. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  12. ^ Fazackerley, Anna (6 December 2018). "UCL launches inquiry into historical links with eugenics". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  13. ^ a b Woodley of Menie, Michael A.; Dutton, Edward; Figueredo, Aurelio-José; Carl, Noah; Debes, Fróði; Hertler, Steven; Irwing, Paul; Kura, Kenya; Lynn, Richard; Madison, Guy; Meisenberg, Gerhard; Miller, Edward M.; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Nyborg, Helmuth; Rindermann, Heiner (September 2018). "Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and unexpected forces". Intelligence. 70: 84–87. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2018.04.002. S2CID 150156004.
  14. ^ Rindermann, Heiner. "Prof. Dr. Heiner Rindermann - Forschungsschwerpunkte" (in German). Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  15. ^ Rindermann, Heiner; Rost, Detlef (September 7, 2010). "Intelligenz von Menschen und Ethnien: Was ist dran an Sarrazins Thesen?". faz.net (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
  16. ^ Rindermann, Heiner (September 12, 2010). "Das Wesen der Intelligenz". nzz.ch (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
  17. ^ "Entwicklungspsychologie: Kita-Kinder lernen besser. FR vom 14.8.08" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 2011-03-07.[permanent dead link]
  18. ^ Rindermann, Heiner (August 8, 2007). "The g-factor of international cognitive ability comparisons: the homogeneity of results in PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS and IQ-tests across nations". European Journal of Personality. 21 (5): 667–706. doi:10.1002/per.634. S2CID 8662680.
  19. ^ Flores-Mendoza, Carmen; Ardila, Rubén; Rosas, Ricardo; Lucio, María Emilia; Gallegos, Miguel; Reátegui Colareta, Norma (2018), Flores-Mendoza, Carmen; Ardila, Rubén; Rosas, Ricardo; Lucio, María Emilia (eds.), "Intelligence, Latin America, and Human Capital", Intelligence Measurement and School Performance in Latin America: A Report of the Study of Latin American Intelligence Project, Springer International Publishing, pp. 79–112, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89975-6_6, ISBN 9783319899756
  20. ^ Hunt, Earl. Human Intelligence. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Page 440-443.
  21. ^ Rindermann, Heiner; Sailer, Michael; Thompson, James (2009). "The impact of smart fractions, cognitive ability of politicians and average competences of peoples on social development" (PDF). Talent Development & Excellence. 1 (1): 3–25. ISSN 1869-0459. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-10. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  22. ^ "Are the Wealthiest Countries the Smartest Countries?" (Press release). Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  23. ^ van der Linden, Dimitri; Dutton, Edward; Madison, Guy (2018-05-23). "National-level Indicators of Androgens are Related to the Global Distribution of Scientific Productivity and Science Nobel Prizes". The Journal of Creative Behavior. 54: 134–149. doi:10.1002/jocb.351. S2CID 149914826.
  24. ^ Heiner., Rindermann (2018). Cognitive Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107279339. OCLC 1022780859.
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