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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by LL

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Thurstone who conceived of the law of comparative judgment which has an [Thurstone stood looking at a chalkboard]

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equation that looks like this.. Now just because we may not understand it doesn't

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mean we should judge it alright which of the following statements represents the

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work of LL Thurstone and here are the potential answers... [mumbling]

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...All right since you're so

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intelligent perhaps you initially suspected B of sounding oddly familiar

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and you'd be right however that answer is actually describing Robert Sternberg [Pair of eyes thinking of Triarchic theory]

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Triarchic theory of intelligence which separates intelligence into practical

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creative and analytic abilities creative guess and you were practically right but

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upon further analysis well it's not quite there so cross out B... D

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sounds a lot like something Thurstone would have said as well but this answer

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speaks specifically to Gardner who outlined eight types of intelligence [A list of Howards multiple intelligences]

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specifically emphasizing the fact that one does not need to be academically

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successful to possess intelligence and just like that kids across America were

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quoting Gardner to their parents but just because he said intelligence [Young boy quoting Gardner to his Mom]

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doesn't solely encapsulate achievements in academia doesn't mean you shouldn't

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try..Yeah not the answer we're looking for so cross that out...And E certainly

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isn't it either that outdated conceptualization of intelligence

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belongs to Charles Spearman and his g-factor thing. Spearman believed various [A living room and Charles Spearman appears]

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cognitive tests could all be used in conjunction with one another to produce

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a G factor that could indicate one's intelligence with such a simplistic [A digram of Spearman's G-Factor theory]

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understanding of intelligence we're attempting to give spearmen a low G

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factor rating but well then we'd be stooping to his level so cross out E..

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Meanwhile C sounds a lot more like something Thurstone would have said if

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only it didn't equally apply to our aforementioned Gardner and Sturnberg [Thurstone and Gardner shrugging his shoulders]

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cross out C.. Well, we're left with A Thurstone was one of the first dudes

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to study mental abilities and intelligence and he identified seven

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specific mental abilities that he proposed to be more important than any [Thurstone's seven mental abilities in a list]

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measure of quote general intelligence unquote...

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And seeing as these did in fact include math and verbal abilities and also [Thurstone's equation on a chalkboard]

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stated that people have varying strengths in each then A is definitely

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our answer of the day, though we're not sure what G factor Spearman would have given

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Thurstone after hearing his theories... [Spearman dressed in trendy clothing stares at Thurstone]

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