Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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The IQ Test Is a Label Without Any Particular Rescue Operation
Every day i get letters from all over the world of people who said my life was transformed but my children's life was transformed because you gave me a way of understanding that i wasn't done i just had a different profile of strengths than what the tests were looking for. The IQ test tells you it's where you're going to be considered smart or dumb it doesn't tell you what to do about it and most people would love i could test also our believers that genes are the major influence on IQ there isn't much you can do about your genes right at least until 2022 you can't turn into your genes for some other genes so the IQ test is a label without any particular uh rescue operation
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