of psychologists not affiliated necessarily but independently said look enough

we don't really think there's enough theory behind IQ tests which is really a major

criticism of IQ tests is there really isn't much there they were developed as we've

been talking about because of historical circumstance

so howard gardner %uh is

really the most prominent of these and he's the fellow who started starting at the %uh

early nineteen eighties came up with this idea of multiple intelligences and i think

in the beginning he had seven nine might get up to nine or something like that but they really

they're far broader than what the traditional psychologists view was so it would include %uh

interpersonal intelligence intra %uh personal intelligence

and musical intelligence bodily kinesthetic

so %uh

the old guard of psychology can't stand the idea still of course because

what they're interested in is something that they called g which stands for general intelligence

IQ tests don't work obviously if there are multiple intelligences there has to be just

one if they want to rank all six billion of us they've got to have this

test and intelligence that is just one thing

that operates regardless of what you're doing or where you are so if you're figuring out

a complex

physics problem it's the same intelligence that's operating if you're having a difficult conversation with

your mother or whatever it would be the same gardner would say I couldn't do either hahahaha

you know gardner would say they're different kinds of intelligence and you're good at some maybe and bad at others

that we're far more varied

what's interesting about gardener's he's not %uh i wouldn't imagine he's particularly pro test he didn't

he didn't do this to devise tests

so

as we've been talking about this a lot of what's going on is the it's the institutions that

use IQ tests in the SAT's and stuff like that

so institutions haven't grabbed onto howard gardner's

version of what intelligence is how could they

who the people who grabbed onto howard gardner are the educators

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