ESRAD webinar by Prof Robert Sternberg

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Oliver Robinson

Time Bomb: How the Western Conception of Intelligence is Taking Down Humanity

AbstractIn this talk, I will argue that the Western conception of intelligence is taking down humanity. Alfred Binet, the creator of the first intelligence test, recognized that intelligence is defined by adaptation to the environment. His main later competitor, David Wechsler, recognized the same thing. But as often happens, followers lose the main message of the founders. They see the trees but not the forest. In the rush for quantification, imitation of the hard sciences, and commercial profits, IQ testers have produced tests that measure only a small fraction of the abilities needed for successful adaptation to the environment. During the 20th century, IQs rose 30 points (the "Flynn effect"), and yet people with these higher IQs have degraded the environment in ways that have threatened not only their own lives but those of future generations. The higher IQs have also been useless in solving other serious problems, such as problems of weapons of mass destruction, violence, increasing income disparities, hunger, and prevention and coping with pandemics. The reason is that IQ tests measure kinds of problem-solving skills that are actually antithetical to the skills needed to solve serious worldwide problems. I propose in this talk a notion of adaptive intelligence--going back to how intelligence was originally conceived of--and show how it can be assessed and developed.The talk will be hosted on Zoom. Delegates will be sent a link to the Zoom meeting before the event via an Eventbrite email.

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