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Intelligence researcher: “It is a perversion that half of the students should go to high school”
The scientist Elsbeth Stern has been researching intelligence for more than 30 years. How does intelligence work? And what is the steep thesis that men are more intelligent than women? An interview that makes you smart.
This edition comes from the Stern Archive and first appeared in May 2024.
Peasant cunning, common sense or ingenuity – there are many ways to describe the ability to think. A type of intelligence is scientifically measurable: cognitive intelligence. Elsbeth Stern has been a professor of teaching and learning research at ETH Zurich since 2006. It is considered a luminary in its field.
In the star podcast “Die Boss”, the multi-supervisory board and hostess Simone Menne speaks with Elsbeth Stern about the definition of intelligence and why social or emotional competence does not matter in her research: “I don’t like it if one is of social or emotional Intelligence speaks. Use the intelligence tests.
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Almost 70 percent of people had a fairly similar intelligence and depicted the mean. Of the remaining 30 percent, there are 15 percent above the average and 15, explains the researcher. If you look at the distribution of intelligence between the sexes, there are no differences in the mean. However, research shows: “There are still differences in the extremes. There are more men in the lower areas and there are clearly more men at the top. but to emphasize that there are still women in the highest areas. “
When asked about the claim of many parents to classify their child as an above -average intelligent and absolutely want to enable him to have high school training, says Elsbeth Stern:
“So if you consider that intelligence is normally distributed, then of course it is actually a perversion to say that half of the students should go to high school, because of course you also do the cut where the hump is greatest. “
What the scientist derives from this for the universities, what role teachers and parents play and what happens when your own boss is less intelligent than yourself, hear in the new episode of the star-Podcasts “The Boss – Power is female”.
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