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> all of those different intelligences correlate, so it is not very useful to categorise them individually Maybe it's not useful for the sake of discussion to
by marvin 4y ago
> all of those different intelligences correlate, so it is not very useful to categorise them individually
Maybe it's not useful for the sake of discussion to list them individually, but it's definitely useful to measure them individually. Or you'll mistake someone who's a master of rotating abstract shapes in their head for someone who manage to get things done in a complex environments. The full-scale IQ tests (WAIS?) do actually test many different manifestations of intelligence.
This is a bit on the side of the point, but it's an important distinction when you're discussing and trying to measure people's real-life abilities.
- necovek 4y agoI am not making this claim, the article is based on a number of studies measuring different types of intelligence. It actually does say that they are all almost exactly the same (sure, highly intelligent individuals will score better on one set of problems than on another, but they will score highly on most of them; similar for average or lower intelligence folks — their scores on each of them correlate but are not in a strict linear relationship). That suggests that they are ultimately one and the same (as per those studies).