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Author: Earl Hunt

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This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological view of a topic in which, too often, writings are dominated by a single theory or social viewpoint. The book discusses the conceptual status of intelligence as a collection of cognitive skills that include, but also go beyond, those skills evaluated by conventional tests; intelligence tests and their analysis; contemporary theories of intelligence; biological and social causes of intelligence; the importance of intelligence in social, industrial, and educational spheres; the role of intelligence in determining success in life, both inside and outside educational settings; and the nature and causes of variations in intelligence across age, gender, and racial and ethnic groups.

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2010

ISBN

9780511985065

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Personality in Psychology

Index

Psychology

THE

TESTS

63

around

1995

there

was

a

movement

toward

presenting

questions

on

computer

screens.

While

this

has

advantages

in

terms

of

test

administration,

simply

putting

items

on

a

computer

does

not

change

the

nature

of

the

psychological

traits

being

evaluated;

a

vocabulary

test

is

a

vocabulary

test.

Reliance

on

out-of-context,

“Drop

in

from

the

Sky”

testing

severely

limits

what

can

be

evaluated.

Within

this

paradigm

it

is

not

possible

to

evaluate

certain

intellectual

traits,

such

as

a

capacity

for

learning,

reﬂec-

tion,

or

creativity,

that

certainly

ought

to

be

considered

part

of

one’s

intelligence.

This

is

a

matter

of

serious

concern.

When

all

is

said

and

done,

though,

the

tests

are

imperfect

but

not

negligible

pre-

dictors

of

success

in

academic

and

industrial

situations.

Validity

coefﬁcients

range

from

.

30

to

.

85

.

Perfection

is

not

a

reasonable

goal.

An

individual’s

success

is

not

solely

determined

by

his

or

her

personal

characteristics;

situa-

tional

constraints

are

often

important.

Nor

can

a

test

possibly

evaluate

all

the

personal

traits

that

might

be

important

in

every

sit-

uation.

The

fact

that

there

are

limits

on

predictive

ability

does

not

imply

that

tests

should

be

disregarded.

Test

scores

do

reﬂect

intelligence.