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Multiple intelligences

Exemplars

Historical people in the orbit of multiple intelligences — a set, not a ranking.

The people below are a history set for multiple intelligences, diverse in country and gender, not a league table.

Years and countries are real. “Why” is a file label, not a rank. No group IQ story is licensed by any of these lives.

Exemplars

  1. Howard Gardner 1943– · United States

    Proposed MI Frames of Mind (1983). Best read as a school taxonomy with philosophical criteria, not as eight thermometers.

  2. Lynn Waterhouse 1940s– · United States

    2006 critique Argued MI had not met the evidence required of an intelligence theory.

  3. Beth A. Visser 1970s– · Canada

    Measurement study With Ashton and Vernon, showed MI-styled tasks still organised by general and broad factors.

  4. Charles Spearman 1863–1945 · United Kingdom

    Positive manifold The psychometric fact MI is often used to dodge.

  5. L. L. Thurstone 1887–1955 · United States

    Primary Mental Abilities Earlier official pluralism inside factor analysis.

  6. Raymond Cattell 1905–1998 · United Kingdom / United States

    Gf/Gc Hierarchical multiple abilities that still admit general variance.

  7. Robert Sternberg 1949– · United States

    Triarchic model A different multi-part alternative, more test-oriented than Gardner.

  8. Jie-Qi Chen 1950s– · China / United States

    Spectrum / early MI practice Classroom assessment work in the Project Zero orbit.

Multiple intelligences: eight lives, not a ranking. Read them as files, not as a hierarchy of peoples.

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