As a teacher, thank you for writing this. We continually produce generations of students who don’t value themselves based on the recall-memory standards.
I hope it is okay to borrow parts of this in discussion with my students?
"Are the any people considered public intellectuals who are onboard with the idea that IQ is a good gauge of intelligence?"
I don't know about public intellectuals but after the publication of "The Bell Curve", the American Psychological Association felt the need to issue a consensus statement reflecting expert opinion on the matter. It's called "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" and is readily available with a Google Scholar search. It summarizes a large body of evidence to conclude that IQ tests consistently measure something, that what they measure is consistent with commonsense definitions of "intelligence", that what they measure is strongly associated with success in school, that what they measure is more weakly but substantially correlated with other types of success, and that the measured differences between groups reflect actual differences between groups rather than problems with the tests.
Pretty much everyone hates these answers, which is why you don't hear about them much. Still, reality has been defined as that which doesn't go away when you ignore it.
1. Many people would benefit from watching The Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow wants brains, but all he gets from the Wizard is a diploma.
2. John W. Gardner is quoted to have said, “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing not good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
As a teacher, thank you for writing this. We continually produce generations of students who don’t value themselves based on the recall-memory standards.
I hope it is okay to borrow parts of this in discussion with my students?
Does this sound like something that would be better for you?
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/white-paper-for-network-based-higher
"Are the any people considered public intellectuals who are onboard with the idea that IQ is a good gauge of intelligence?"
I don't know about public intellectuals but after the publication of "The Bell Curve", the American Psychological Association felt the need to issue a consensus statement reflecting expert opinion on the matter. It's called "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" and is readily available with a Google Scholar search. It summarizes a large body of evidence to conclude that IQ tests consistently measure something, that what they measure is consistent with commonsense definitions of "intelligence", that what they measure is strongly associated with success in school, that what they measure is more weakly but substantially correlated with other types of success, and that the measured differences between groups reflect actual differences between groups rather than problems with the tests.
Pretty much everyone hates these answers, which is why you don't hear about them much. Still, reality has been defined as that which doesn't go away when you ignore it.
Two things come to mind after reading this:
1. Many people would benefit from watching The Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow wants brains, but all he gets from the Wizard is a diploma.
2. John W. Gardner is quoted to have said, “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing not good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”