Re: Intelligence & Creativity
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 02:56:17 +0530
Jason,
I think you might like to read Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple
Intelligences...there is a book by that name and in any case it has long
been established practice to distinguish between the intelligence as
measured by IQ tests and such other laughably arcane means, and
different special abilities people have -- thus Einstein may have lacked
in 'emotional' intelligence, Gandhi say in 'mathematical' or 'spatial',
Jds say in "musical" and so on...
But talking specifically of writers, looking at the proportion of
readable material to available material, I would hesitate to conclude
that they seem to have above average intelligence, of the IQ variety
even...
On the other hand, programmers, though blessed with mathematical,
computational and logical abilities, generally do seem to need to follow
Scottie's advice, from what little I have seen of them...(And Microsoft
programmers in general are alleged to suffer from a serious paucity of
intelligence, howsoever defined)
Sonny