 Yes, what really is intelligence?
My husband and I used to laugh when he told me that on IQ tests he was below the average intelligence. Yet, this was a highly intelligent man who navigated us in our yacht all over the Pacific, who was very creative in drawing and sculpture and who used to just blow me away with his ability to think in 3-D and create in woodwork what he could visualize. He was good at math and had taught himself to read despite the poor teaching he had at school. He was however, labelled dysletic and of course the IQ tests do not take that into consideration and people with this different way of learning are marginalized in education yet are very intelligent. So do intelligent tests just test a limited range of cognition?
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