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[–]FoxySDTWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

(Other forms of intelligence are also measured and studied today. You can easily read about it.)

I would love to read about it.

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Oh you mean Howard Gardner's "multiple intelligences" theory. This is a good write up on it:

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/multiple-intelligences-emotional-intelligence-creativity-and-g/

Here are some highlights from the article:

Gardner admitted that “MI theory has few enthusiasts among psychometricians or others of a traditional psychological background” because they require “psychometric or experimental evidence that allows one to prove the existence of the several intelligences.”

here, Gardner himself admitted that MI theory is unfalsifiable because it can't be measured.

This lead the authors of this textbook to correctly conclude:

The Textbook “Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice” classifies multiple intelligences as a pseudoscience because it is unfalsifiable (there’s no way to show it’s wrong) and doesn’t make any predictions.

If you still aren't convinced consider these surveys of psychologists which found that they overwhelmingly favor a g-factor model of intelligence over specific abilities. [1] [2]

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Thank you