Ender Wiggin might be a compelling protagonist, but he’s also problematic. This week, I investigate how Ender’s Game can make you dumb.
PBS Idea Channel’s video on the possible political implications of seeing Ender’s Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZyzvLxEpU
Professor Carol Dweck’s article about how beliefs about intelligence can affect learning performance - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1838571/
Dweck gives a lecture on her findings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvR_0mNpWM
A study demonstrating the plasticity of IQ in the teenage brain - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7371/full/nature10514.html
A truly scathing review of Ender’s Game as “geek wish-fulfillment porn” - http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.html