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Spearman believed that intelligence could be expressed in a single factor. By using factor analysis, he found correlations among disparate items and concluded that a single, general (g) factor underlies many specific (s) intelligences. In other words, people who perform well on one of the specific abilities test would generally perform well on other intelligences as well because they have a high general intelligence. According to Spearman, intelligence is something that could be measured and this seems false because intelligence is an abstract concept that should not be reified. Although studies and statistics have proven that people who score well on a certain specific intelligence do better on other abilities as well, the simplification of intelligence as a single factor seems too radical and insufficient to describe one's true capability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. When Spearman views the results of my intelligence tests, he would claim that since I scored relatively high on linguistic intelligence, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal intelligence, I have a high g factor that underlies all these specific intelligences. I do not think that his theory is totally accurate because although I scored well on some areas such as linguistic and interpersonal intelligences, I did not do well on other areas such as kinesthetic and musical intelligences.



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