ABSTRACT
Over the last several years, the most bracing event of the author's life was the publication of his book Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies. He would stress the subtitle: The book is intended to be primarily a survey of factor-analytic studies. It was never his intention to tell all there is to tell about human cognitive abilities; that would have required more volumes than one, or perhaps an encyclopedia like what Sternberg produced. He had to be realistic about what he could cram between the covers of a reasonably sized book. It was gratifying enough for him just to get the book out into publication, having working on it for something like 10 years. The plan here is to attempt a critique of his book and, further, a critique of the field that he proposed to survey, with the hope that his remarks may provoke questions for further thought and research.
