Also this MI dogma became a foundation of educational psychology and policy, and most public school teachers were taught to believe in it.
All psych textbooks cover 'Multiple Intelligences', but only 9% report that the idea was debunked decades ago. http://bit.ly/1WMA4Hs https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/863524869111140352 …
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The belief that "g" describes all of intelligence is a early 1900s idea adopted by progressives to justify eugenics.
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Nobody believes that g describes all of intelligence. It's simply captures about 50% of the variance across mental tests.
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Belief in an all powerful "g" is religious - political not scientific. Gardner criticism political pedantic focuses on details not concept
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The g factor is the best-established discovery in all of psychology, with thousands of papers supporting it. You don't know your science.
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@liebermaninfo Yes, Howard Gardner's idea about MI's always seemed ideologically-based rather than empirically-based to me.
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Still cool stuff but yeah time to realize that the ability to jump 20 feet does not measure intelligence.
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Will chat about this in Folkestone. I think the concept is one of those which might be described as "wrong but useful".
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Jordan Peterson on intelligence. Problem is it has such awkward non p.c. conclusions any other theory is preferred https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRFxulvRC7I …
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There are literally zero empirical studies supporting it, and many against it: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201311/the-illusory-theory-multiple-intelligences …
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