Please Explain: IQ

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Cognitive researchers have been creating ways to define and measure human intelligence for more than a century, sparking plenty of controversy along the way. Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education joins us today to answer your questions about the history and practice of IQ testing, the possibility of multiple intelligences, why nurture and nature affect cognitive ability, and how we got from Stanford-Binet to the SAT.

Purchase Dr. Gardner’s most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, at amazon.com, or learn more about his work by visiting his homepage.

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