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In speaking about intelligence or "how smart someone is" perhaps it would be
more illluminating to consider how successful a person is in optomizing
itself in its environment, optomizing the environment for its success, or in
how successful it is in finding an environment where it can do the previous.
Examination of our intelligence" tests yields the criticism that they do not
take into account cultural, experiential, and environmental factors, both of
the tester and the subject. Basically they were written by highly formally
educated, upper middle class or higher white guys of Northern European
descent, and that informs the "Score" they assign to those who are more or
less like themselves. Awareness of this bias should also be examined and
delt with in selection and development of museum experiences.

Phil Edgerton at The Health Adventure

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