The Trouble with Geniuses, Pt. II
The trouble with Langan…
Theory of Successful Intelligence
Academic vs. Practical Intelligence
Academic intelligence – What standardized tests of cognitive ability measure (e.g., reasoning)
Academic vs. Practical Intelligence
Practical intelligence – Based on knowledge that is procedural rather than factual; is usually learned without help of others; and is personally relevant to the learner
Academic vs. Practical Intelligence
Academic vs. Practical Intelligence
Successful intelligence is defined as the ability to balance the needs to adapt to, shape and select environments in order to attain success, however one defines it, within one’s own socio-cultural context. - Robert Sternberg
Academic vs. Practical Intelligence
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlmKZeNi-U
Robert Oppenheimer
“His parents considered him a genius”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8w3Y-dskeg
Concerted Cultivation
So where does practical intelligence come from? We know where analytical intelligence comes from. It’s something, at least in part, that’s in your genes…But social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.
Concerted Cultivation
Concerted Cultivation
Practical Intelligen
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Concerted Cultivation
This is the advantage that Oppenheimer had and that Chris Langan lacked. Oppenheimer was raised in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, the son of an artist and a successful garment manufacturer. His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.
Concerted Cultivation
Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken, stepfather.
Keeping Malcolm Honest Problems with Practical
Intelligence Where prediction of work
performance is concerned, it is not clear that it is distinct from job knowledge.
Keeping Malcolm Honest Problems with Practical
Intelligence Practical intelligence and
general intelligence are not orthogonal, in the strictest sense of the term (r = 0)
Keeping Malcolm Honest
Practical Intelligence
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Orthogonal – Statistically independent (i.e., r = 0)
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Reference section
Kopiez, R., & Lee, J. I. (2006). Towards a dynamic model of skills involved in sight reading music. Music Education Research, 10, 41-62.
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Reference section
Kopiez, R., & Lee, J. I. (2006). Towards a dynamic model of skills involved in sight reading music. Music Education Research, 10, 41-62.
Title
Level 1 Header
The purpose of this
paper is to explore factors
that contribute to success
in professional wrestling.
Level 2 header. The
specific question that I will
focus on in this paper is
whether professional
wrestlers, such as Rowdy
Roddy Piper and Rick Flair,
can be considered
geniuses.
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