IQ, or Multiple Intelligence?

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Why does traditional psychology reject Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory, and why hasn't his theory been more widely adopted? Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A smart history of a failed idea, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Books of our Time.

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Education

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• bias
• education
• gardner
• iq
• psychology
• standardized
• test
• multiple
• intelligences

[Ejexion]

In other words, what if there is a correlation between two (or more) abilities? Surely, we see that there are some people who ARE good at more than one thing; in fact, you might find someone who is good at what appears to be EVERYTHING! What can MI say of this individual?

I make this point to demonstrate that there ARE correlations and that there IS a common factor measured when testing for intelligence, namely 'g'. The old guard of psychology wasn't off the mark, after all.

[73elephants]

To put it another way, the "theory" of multiple intelligences hints that different "kinds" of intelligence (such as "verbal-linguistic" and "logico-mathematical") are negatively correlated with one another, directly contradicting decades of evidence that shows that these various expressions of intelligence are positively correlated. I think the motivation for this "theory" is transparent: it is to give false comfort to the slow kids: "Bad at arithmetic? Never mind, you're probably good at art."

[TilhasTZplease]

thumbs up if you came here from a psychology class link.

[PATSICK]

In the academic world it all comes down to what you can get funding for. You can get all the funding you want for "research" on "MI"; quotes, because it's bullshit. And you're completely accemptable on TV, etc. etc. for the simple reason that you're providing the propaganda for oficial lie. America gave up when the tribesmen burned down Los Angeles, and just said, ok, ok. you're equal. Nothing else is mainstream acceptable. Read "The Bell Shaped Curve" if you want to find out the real facts.

[HispanicIsNotARace1]

@73elephants: And compared to people such as Leonhard Euler and Einstein, you could be considered slow at math. I don't think that MI theory is correct, but Intelligence is not as black and white as you think.

[Viktir666]

I have really high scores in multiple areas but I'm very weak with mazes. Very odd how we can be nearly genius in some areas and terrible in other areas. The human brain is fascinating.