Why We Need to Redefine Intelligence

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🗓️ 13 June 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined."

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.3	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.7	I'm talking today with Scott Berry Kaufman.
0:37.4	He's on the faculty at NYU, and he's
0:39.6	author of the book Ungifted, redefined the truth about talent practice
0:45.0	creativity and the many paths to greatness he also contributes to hibr
0:50.0	Scott thanks so much for joining us today thank Thank you, it's great to be here.
0:54.0	So I thought we would just start with,
0:56.0	why redefine intelligence?
0:58.0	What's wrong with the way we see intelligence today?
1:00.0	Yeah, it's a great question, and it's not an immediately obvious answer.
1:05.0	There's plenty of educators that probably think that it's perfectly okay or current way of assessing
1:12.0	intelligence, you know, which is predominantly still the use of standardized
1:15.9	test scores like IQ tests and academic achievement tests.
1:20.2	Those individuals can make a case that the system is perfectly fine the way it is because
1:26.1	IQ test scores, these sorts of metrics do statistically correlate with important outcomes in education and in life. So they could make a case and it's not an obvious
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