Monday, August 23, 2010

Intelligence may be best represented by a vector

Gould, Kitcher, Gardner, and others have all argued against any single generalized factor of intelligence g or "IQ."   I agree that a scalar g or IQ may not be able to represent what we mean when we talk about intelligence. I believe a vector may be needed, consisting of components like:

memory  (amount, accuracy, etc.)

spatial/pictoral

logical/mathematical

speed  (of recall, of deduction, of saving to memory, etc.)

linguistic

creativity

etc.

These components of a vector intelligence measure are NOT assumed to be orthogonal.

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