pAdvance praise forppIQ A Smart History of a Failed IdeapAn up-to-date, reader-friendly account of the continuing saga of the mismeasure of women and men.br--Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences New HorizonspThe good news is that you won't be tested after you've read Stephen Murdoch's important new book. The better news is that IQ A Smart History of a Failed Idea is compelling from its first pages, and by its conclusion, Murdoch has deftly demonstrated that in our zeal to quantify intelligence, we have needlessly scarred--if not destroyed--the lives of millions of people who did not need an IQ score to prove their worth in the world. IQ is first-rate narrative journalism, a book that I hope leads to necessary change.br--Russell Martin, author of Beethoven's Hair, Picasso's War, and Out of SilencepWith fast-paced storytelling, freelance journalist Murdoch traces now ubiquitous but still controversial attempts to measure intelligence to its origins in the l