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Chapter 2 - What Is Intelligence? A Panoply of Views

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Current societally-entrenched conceptions of intelligence, like hand-shaking, are hard for society to give up. Whole educational systems are based on the use of tests, like the SAT, ACT, PISA, and statewide and local mastery tests, that are highly correlated with and largely proxies for conventional tests of intelligence. But these tests are proving to be as adaptive today as is hand-shaking. People are just slower to realize the full destructive power of the tests based on these conceptions of intelligence.

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Adaptive Intelligence
Surviving and Thriving in Times of Uncertainty
 , pp. 27 - 73
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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