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  • MediaDB / «IQ for the hamster and the gopher" Mikhail Uspensky: download fb2, read online

    About the book: year / Do not confuse intelligence with cunning. In the 70s, sociology was no longer considered a bourgeois pseudoscience and began to be used in production within the framework of the scientific organization of labor. A young sociologist worked at the plant and gave recommendations to management. And in those same years, a book by G. Eysenck called “Test Your Intelligence,” or IQ, was published. It turned out that in the interval from the foreman to the director of the plant, this same IQ steadily decreases. That is, the lower a person’s level, the higher the position he occupies. Reason is what distinguishes a person from a leader, they laughed then, not yet realizing that Gogol’s words about fools and roads are quite relevant. For survival, nature endows a person with either one or the other. In nature, the strongest economic managers are the hamster and the gopher. Field pests…