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At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society. Sternberg, who has studied intelligence and intelligence testing for decades, is well known for his “triarchic theory of intelligence,” which identifies three kinds of smarts: the analytic type reflected in IQ scores; practical intelligence, which is more relevant for real-life problem solving; and creativity. Sternberg offered his views in a lecture associated with receiving a William James Fellow Award from the APS for his lifetime contributions to psychology. He explained his concerns to Scientific American.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
What I argue is that intelligence that’s not modulated and moderated by creativity, common sense and wisdom is not such a positive thing to have. What it leads to is people who are very good at advancing themselves, often at other people’s expense. We may not just be selecting the wrong people, we may be developing an incomplete set of skills—and we need to look at things that will make the world a better place.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @04:09PM (1 child)
So studying the effects of standardized testing and wanting to change things so as to improve the world, this you call a racist dog whistle? I think you're just bent out of shape by the civil rights movement and the attempts to correct years of abuses. You're like the minorities that see everything as racist, except you're a special pure white snowflake. Oh, and one who needs to label themselves ad a white supremacist but that only means you like whites MORE not that you like others LESS. Mmmhmmm
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @11:36PM
Anonymous got his virtue signalling in for the day! Congrats, the two minute hate was successful. You've labeled somebody a racist on the internet. You're a hero! Here's a gold star for your Facebook page. Now back to the discussion about how tests must be wrong because stupid people keep failing at them.