Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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The Brain and Developmental Psychology and I Was a Founder Member of Project Zero
In 1967 I was founding member of a group called Project Zero started by a philosopher named Nelson Goodman who said there's lots of lore about the arts but there's very little systematic knowledge so we're going to call our research project Project Zero. Using a complex formula taking more than a year I created eight different tests for various kinds of candidate cognitive abilities and doing this matrix I came to the conclusion that the human intellect is better described as seven relatively independent computers than a single all-purpose computer. If you were smart one thing you'd be smarting everything if you were average in one things you'd be averaging everythingif you were stupid or dumb with a lower average then one thing you would be stupid
