On 23 Apr 2004 10:51:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Flom) wrote: [ ... ] > > It is, I believe, much more basic than that: We do not have a good > definition of 'intelligence' - there is heated debate over whether there > even IS one thing called intelligence (I am of the opinion that there > is). - Just *one* thing? I don't believe there is, though it often is useful to talk about intelligence that way.
Have you read Gardner's multiple intelligences? That sounds awkward, but google gives 39,300 hits for < "multiple intelligences" Gardner > . > > As to the difficulty of problems - that can at least be assessed by > giving the problem to lots and lots of people, and seeing how many can > solve it. After that, debrief and check carefully where ever a few of the top scorers make the same error. Lots of people can be wrong. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
