Intelligence Theories XIII

 It's a category error to lump all these together and to call them intelligence. Professor Gardner is convinced we have at least eight relatively separate intelligences. This is completely opposite to IQ which assumes that we all have just one general intelligence. So you might be wonderful at understanding other people but a disaster at doing crossword puzzles or flying an airplane. So we do know that an individual's high-performance in one area simply doesn't predict high performance in other areas. Horizon put its line-up of high-flyers through Professor Gardner's new intelligence tests to see if the outcome would be any different to the standard IQ tests. But there's no agreed system for measuring them.

Intelligence Theories X About IQ

 The IQ test consists of many sections that seem unconnected. What does an entomologist study? There are sections on vocabulary and general knowledge. What's the capital of Jordan? Amman. What's the distance between London and Hong Kong in miles? I would suspect it's around a third of the way around the globe so about miles. A section on memory. Eight one seven five backwards. Five seven one eight.
And a section to test spatial ability. You're doing just fine. Wow that was tough. Do a lot of people get this one in two minutes? I can't see how that works. Common sense might tell us that we're good at some of these sections and bad at others. But that's not the case. On average if we're good at one of these sections we tend to be good at all of them. And from this comes the idea that intelligence is some kind of general all-round ability.

Intelligence Theories VIII

 We don't know how many genes we're talking about and if there are very very many they're going to have very very small effects and be very very difficult to find. But I think these genetic differences when they're expressed are going to show up throughout the brain. It's not going to be this gene does that bit of the brain this gene affects another bit of the brain. Now that's a hypothesis for now but it's a very testable one when we find these damn genes if we ever do find them. Scientists have now gathered data from combined studies of over pairs of twins to give a more up-to-date measure of nature versus nurture.

Intelligence Theories VII

I didn't know because this was everything. Do you want to hand me the dog? I am immensely pleased with the outcome of the mating between Dr Blake and Number . We've had a splendid result. I think no question about it. Doran is about as ideal as nearly as we can judge at his early age about as ideal as we could hope. Everyone wanted to know about my genius sperm bank child. Doran represented what Dr Graham was trying to achieve. Smart beautiful. Everybody wanted a Doran. They just wanted to come to our bank and get a Doran. The phone rang off the hook. We had arrived. After years in operation my genius sperm bank was ultimately responsible for the production of children. We've got lots of baby pictures. Jessie ended up being the th baby born to the repository.

Intelligence Theories VII

 I would not be here without Robert Graham without his existence and in a way I owe him my life. Well I'm Tom Grunwal and live here in Temecula in southern California. I'm Andrea Grunwal and I live with Tom. I had had two children with my first wife then with my second wife I took the steps to have a vasectomy. The next thing you know I'm divorced. I never really thought I would ever have another child in the rest of my life. Until I met Andrea. I finally just spilled my gut and said Tom I don't know how to say this but I would really like to have a baby and I don't know how you feel about that. And I said OK if you can figure out how let's go for it. I wanted to offer these women the seed of clever men and for me scientists were the pinnacle of intelligence.
 With proven measurable practical ability. I figured let's start at the top. We were trying to have outstanding genes and Nobel Prize winners possessed them. Due to your outstanding achievements you would be an excellent donor for our Repository for Germinal Choice.
We hope to create some very bright children possibly a genius or two. I managed to convince three Nobel laureate scientists to each provide an anonymous sample for my bank. I actually was a little surprised that some of these older fellows were able to produce specimens so quickly. Bob was very pleased when we took that first look at the specimen under the microscope and saw thousands of sperm swimming vigorously. He beamed with joy. Good job! It's peculiar but I didn't think it was weird.
My name is Dr Afton Blake and I live in Los Angeles California in a little place called Mount Washington. Om.... When I first called the repository they were very friendly. They came up the next day to meet me and interview me. And I think the very next month I tried my first insemination. Choose me as your mother. Then months after I had tried the first time I conceived. In August having been impregnated with donor codenamed Red Dr Afton Blake gave birth to a boy she named Doran.
It was ecstasy from the moment he came out looked in my eyes and stopped crying immediately that we made contact and the bond was like so incredible. Everybody liked the name Doran which means in Greek a gift from the gods. I could never imagine life without him. It was like suddenly what did I have before I had Doran?