Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
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Intelligence is defined as “the possession of knowledge, the ability to efficiently use knowledge to reason about the world, and the ability to employ that reasoning adaptively in different environments” (Bernstein, Clarke-Stewart, Roy, and Wickens, 1997,pp. 304). But can we accurately measur ....
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.... has not been presented to them. This can be determined by several different factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened ....
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