New INSIGHT: If rationality is not a product of intelligence, then what is it a product of? To find out, researchers such as Keith Stanovich, Richard West, and others have studied individual differences in rationality. In other words, they have worked to identify what makes people who perform well on a specific set of cognitive tasks different from people who do not. Intelligence is one factor, but it does not explain all of the variability. There are some tasks for which performance is not related to intelligence much at all. This is surprising to most, because we tend to think of the term smart somewhat simplistically. We expect people who are smart in one way to be smart in every way. But that’s not quite how intelligence works (again, please read my first post, which discusses the differences between IQ and rationality, and how each is measured). So what’s going on?
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:01:26 +0000
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