Children scoring highly on one intelligence tend to score highly on others, consistent with general intelligence¶
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q2 i? The review reports, citing McGuiness, that Gifted Child Quarterly findings showed children scoring highly on one intelligence tend to score highly on some others, which is expected if general intelligence exists and not expected if intelligences are separate. → Peariso 2008
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Peariso 2008¶
Peariso, J. F. (2008). Multiple Intelligences or Multiply Misleading: The Critic's View of the Multiple Intelligences Theory. Liberty University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED500515
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The review attributes this finding to McGuiness (2007) discussing work by Guskin, Peng, and Simon (1992) in Gifted Child Quarterly. The review reports it second-hand; no statistics are printed.
"showed that children who scored highly on one 'intelligence' tend to score highly on some others: this is exactly what you would expect if there was some kind of 'general' intelligence"
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Related Claims¶
- A century of psychometric data consistently shows performances on intellectual tests are correlated, which MI must account for — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Gardner holds intelligences are not interchangeable, so one intelligence cannot substitute for another in learning a domain — related
- MI theory lacks empirical theory-testing research supporting its intelligences as autonomous faculties — related
- Embedded figures test performance differed by sex and correlated relatively highly with intelligence — related
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Children scoring highly on one intelligence tend to score highly on others, consistent with general intelligence |
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Children scoring highly on one intelligence tend to score highly on others, consistent with general intelligence |
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