@primalpoly is there merit to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences like I was taught by my psych professor?
No. None at all. He's never produced a shred of evidence to support it or to challenge the existence of the g factor.
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My girlfriend’s brother in high school also had to explain which intelligence “relates to him the most.” Why do you think this misinformed theory is so widespread when so much evidence points towards a single factor of general intelligence?
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It's widespread because it's a feel-good idea ('everyone's a genius at something'), and because it's been promoted in schools of education for decades, despite being empirically vacuous.
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