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Is a Person’s IQ the same as their Intelligence?

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Intelligence is a characteristic spanning several cognitive dimensions, including neural efficiency, memory, intuition, creativity, capacity for abstraction and power of visualization, among others. Although the IQ test provides the best measure of intelligence that we have, it addresses only some of these dimensions. For that reason, it is correlated to intelligence rather than providing a …

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What does Genius look like?

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Today, April 15, is the birthday of one of the most celebrated geniuses in history–Leonardo da Vinci. Described as the “quintessential Renaissance Man,” Leonardoi–a person compelled by an insatiable curiosity to address the broadest spectrum of intellectual disciplines ever embraced by a human being–became the icon for the polymath. Born out of wedlock in the …

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How differently do street-smart people think compared to book-smart people?

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There is, of course, an overlap between those who are street smart and those who are book-smart. Many people of high IQ, like Ben Franklin were also students of human nature, so they were able to share their visions with others and achieve goals by persuading them to their causes. However, many book-smart people like …

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Why does the Heritability of Intelligence Increase with Age?

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During most of the 20th century, there were extensive debates about the extent to which intelligence was determined by the genes we inherit. The popular consensus was that intelligence is mainly a result of environmental experience. To some extent, this tacit assumption was wishful thinking by those who hoped to promote equity and inclusion, yet …

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The Struggle between Truth & Ideology in Education

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In the past several months, I’ve posted comments decrying California’s Frameworks for Mathematics in its denial of giftedness and its abandonment of programs to meet the needs of gifted students. (See Does America have its Priorities in Order?) The statement in the draft of the Frameworks read as follows: An important goal of the Framework is to replace …

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California Recognizes Giftedness

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In the past several months, I’ve posted comments decrying California’s Frameworks for Mathematics in its denial of giftedness and its abandonment of programs to meet the needs of gifted students. (See https://www.intelligence-and-iq.com/does-americas-have-its-priorities-in-order/) An important goal of the Framework is to replace ideas of innate mathematics “talent” and “giftedness” with the recognition that every student is …

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What’s the Difference between Intelligence, Wisdom and Cleverness?

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The three concepts, intelligence, wisdom and cleverness, have some overlap because they all draw from our ability to learn. The following definition of intelligence, given by psychologist Linda Gottfredson in 1997, has achieved wide consensus among members of the American Psychological Association (APA): Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves …

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