EDST 391 Intelligence in Everyday Life

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P/F Writing Assignment for Day 4

A look inside some IQ tests

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Readings:

• Deary's Intelligence, pp. 1-12, "Dataset 1" (also the prior 5 pages if you don't know what correlations are)
• checklist for assessing Gardner's intelligences --bring to class
• We will look inside some IQ tests today, including the one that Deary describes

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1. Deary uses Dataset 1 to help answer the question, "Is there one ‘intelligence’ or many?" (As he notes, this study of the WAIS-III is just one example of many other such studies.)
1. Which particular results (statistics) in the study are relevant--and how--to answering this one-or-many question? Be specific.
2. What answer did Dataset 1 provide, if any, to the one-many question? Explain.

2. Ask a friend, family member, or dormmate:

a. How would they define intelligence?

b. In their view, is there one intelligence or multiple intelligences? What has led them to that conclusion?

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