Book contents
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Is Intelligence? A Panoply of Views
- Chapter 3 Intelligence as the Broad Ability to Adapt to the Environment
- Chapter 4 Why General Intelligence May Be Unhelpful, or Detrimental, in Times of Instability, and for that Matter, in Other Times as Well
- Chapter 5 History of the Theory of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 6 Measurement and Teaching of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 7 Why Do People Persist in Species-Suicidal Beliefs and Practices and What’s to Be Done?
- Chapter 8 The Great Adaptive-Intelligence Test
- Index
Chapter 8 - The Great Adaptive-Intelligence Test
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
Book contents
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Is Intelligence? A Panoply of Views
- Chapter 3 Intelligence as the Broad Ability to Adapt to the Environment
- Chapter 4 Why General Intelligence May Be Unhelpful, or Detrimental, in Times of Instability, and for that Matter, in Other Times as Well
- Chapter 5 History of the Theory of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 6 Measurement and Teaching of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 7 Why Do People Persist in Species-Suicidal Beliefs and Practices and What’s to Be Done?
- Chapter 8 The Great Adaptive-Intelligence Test
- Index
Summary
“Wait!” my colleagues in the intelligence-testing business might say. “We have a test; you don’t. And it’s the intelligence test that has single-handedly created the field of intelligence research and testing as it is today.” It is a stunning piece of technology. It is also being shown to be utterly useless for saving civilization as we know it.
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- Adaptive IntelligenceSurviving and Thriving in Times of Uncertainty, pp. 244 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021