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Intelligence is real but very difficult to quantify. The last time I was familiar with the literature (~10 years ago), intelligence was best defined as having
by trunnell 16y ago
Intelligence is real but very difficult to quantify.
The last time I was familiar with the literature (~10 years ago), intelligence was best defined as having many dimensions. It's a collection of weakly related gifts. Spatial reasoning, for example, is a different kind of intelligence than musical ability. Perhaps someone more up to date on the science can chime in.
In any case, attempts to squash all those dimensions into a single numerical scale (like an IQ) hide a lot of information and can be very misleading.
- jacques_chester 16y agoIQ is the KSLOC of the psychometrics world.
- vacri 16y agoWay back when I was studying intelligence there were a number of specialties, but there were three broad groups that these specialties seemed to cohere under: 1) Algorithmic intelligence: the layman's usual picture of intellegence around working with concepts, figures, space, so on and so forth 2) Verbal intelligence: working with language and expression, vocabulary, etc 3) Social intelligence: being able to read people and social situations This was the state of play ~15 years ago and things may have restructured, but it points out that acuity can be in places other than the usual geeky fare. The sales guy that can sell you something you don't want and make you feel good about it is able to read your cues and formulate responses to counter 'incorrect' behaviour.
- nostrademons 16y agoIntelligence may or may not have multiple facets, but the "multiple intelligences" fad proposed by Howard Gardner was basically shown to be bunk, devoid of any real scientific evidence.