Previously posted in Developing Cultural Intelligence for Leadership G+ community
Loving how I keep finding great content when rabbit trailling on online courses. This latest example is a BBC documentary looking at intelligence and IQ tests featuring 7 individuals with radically different backgrounds (a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader). Well worth a watch.
Video: https://youtu.be/p4-A3fmmFVA
"Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes?
Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?
The principal way that we measure intelligence, the IQ test, remains popular and convenient. Yet most psychologists agree that it only tells half the story... at most. Where they disagree is how to measure intelligence, for the simple reason that the experts still don't know exactly what it is."
(taken from the original BBC Horizon programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/intelligence/)
"The most popular way in which human intelligence is measured is the 10 test, but is this the most effective? A growing number of psychologists argue that the assessment only tells half the story because no-one can quite agree on what intelligence is. After an examination of the most recent theories, this programme conducts an experiment on seven highly-qualified people from different occupations, including a fighter pilot, a Wall Street trader, a chess grandmaster and a quantum physicist. Each is put through a series of tests based on the latest research to determine who has the highest intelligence. But are the results conclusive?"
(from the Wikipedia list of Horizon episodes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Horizon_episodes)
A transcript of the video is available @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/intelligence/highlights/ but I don't think the video is working on that page.
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