Saturday, February 10, 2007

Are you really smart

Intelligence

2 comments:

Lisa said...

That is a good one, Grant. And so very very true.

christy said...

Controversial concept!

Here's another critic of traditional intelligence measures:

Stephen Jay Gould http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould) was an important popular critic of intelligence theory. In his book The Mismeasure of Man, Gould made the following claims about intelligence:

> Intelligence is not measurable.
> Intelligence is not innate.
> Intelligence is only partly heritable, and what is inherited is mutable.
> Intelligence cannot be captured in a single number.