But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. (Robert Sternberg)
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. (Robert Sternberg)
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. (Robert Sternberg)
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. (Robert Sternberg)
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. (Robert Sternberg)
Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish. (Robert Sternberg)
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. (Robert Sternberg)
2 is you'll find that many people are accepted who don't have the high SATs, but they have some degree of distinction in something else because the competitive colleges don't want just a bunch of people who are good at getting As, they want diversity. (Robert Sternberg)
If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway. (Robert Sternberg)
If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach. (Robert Sternberg)
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. (Robert Sternberg)
The new dean urges students not to sacrifice friends for studies. There's a tendency for students to say, 'Right now I need to pay attention to my work,' and so they blow off building personal relationships, ... Don't do that - finding the time will never get any easier, and that is a really important part of life. (Robert Sternberg)
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing. (Robert Sternberg)
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. (Robert Sternberg)
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