Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Aside : MI 5
MI-8 and MI 5 both have the common thread of "intelligence". But the similarity stops there. I got curious about MI 5, the British Security Service, and checked out their web site MI 5.
Have a look.
PS: Found this very interesting ! Myths
MI-8 and MI 5 both have the common thread of "intelligence". But the similarity stops there. I got curious about MI 5, the British Security Service, and checked out their web site MI 5.
Have a look.
PS: Found this very interesting ! Myths
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
MI-8!!
Howard Gardner(HG henceforth) in his book “Frames of Mind” presents his research into the field of human intelligence. This book is an extract from his research of 1983 done at MIT. The first edition was published in 1983. The one I bought recently is a 1993 edition.
According to HG, human beings have Multiple Intelligences (MI). He has identified eight different forms (actually this is a changing number; the point is that there are multiple, distinct intelligences):
• Logical/Analytical Intelligence (most scientists, you ?)
• Musical Intelligence (a Bach or MS)
• Linguistic Intelligence (a Salman Rushdie or John Grisham :-))
• Interpersonal Intelligence (Hitler perhaps ?)
• Intrapersonal Intelligence (M.K.Gandhi)
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Sharapova!)
• Spatial Intelligence (La Corbusier)
• Naturalistic Intelligence (Bittu Sehgal)
Often, intelligence is seen as a measurable attribute and the Intelligent Quotient seems to be the most commonly used measure of it. The process and content of IQ measuring tools consists mainly of testing analytical and logical reasoning through short tests. The inadequacy of this approach is the starting point for HG’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. The expertise of a fisherman navigating the seas without a compass, he says, falls outside the scope of any of the measures in an IQ test. So would that make the fisherman stupid? [My comment: IQ tests are constrained by our intelligence to design tests that can trigger all compartments of the brain !]
I will keep blogging as I peruse HG’s theory and hope that what I convey in layman terms will help you reflect too. (If it leads you to the book directly that will be great!) Right now, due to other pressures bearing on my Logical Intelligence compartment, pace will be rather slow.:-)
Blog convention for this thread :
[ ]: my comments
*: reference to the book
**: external reference (ambitious !)
PS: Interaction is solicited..
Howard Gardner(HG henceforth) in his book “Frames of Mind” presents his research into the field of human intelligence. This book is an extract from his research of 1983 done at MIT. The first edition was published in 1983. The one I bought recently is a 1993 edition.
According to HG, human beings have Multiple Intelligences (MI). He has identified eight different forms (actually this is a changing number; the point is that there are multiple, distinct intelligences):
• Logical/Analytical Intelligence (most scientists, you ?)
• Musical Intelligence (a Bach or MS)
• Linguistic Intelligence (a Salman Rushdie or John Grisham :-))
• Interpersonal Intelligence (Hitler perhaps ?)
• Intrapersonal Intelligence (M.K.Gandhi)
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Sharapova!)
• Spatial Intelligence (La Corbusier)
• Naturalistic Intelligence (Bittu Sehgal)
Often, intelligence is seen as a measurable attribute and the Intelligent Quotient seems to be the most commonly used measure of it. The process and content of IQ measuring tools consists mainly of testing analytical and logical reasoning through short tests. The inadequacy of this approach is the starting point for HG’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. The expertise of a fisherman navigating the seas without a compass, he says, falls outside the scope of any of the measures in an IQ test. So would that make the fisherman stupid? [My comment: IQ tests are constrained by our intelligence to design tests that can trigger all compartments of the brain !]
I will keep blogging as I peruse HG’s theory and hope that what I convey in layman terms will help you reflect too. (If it leads you to the book directly that will be great!) Right now, due to other pressures bearing on my Logical Intelligence compartment, pace will be rather slow.:-)
Blog convention for this thread :
[ ]: my comments
*: reference to the book
**: external reference (ambitious !)
PS: Interaction is solicited..
