This activity will explore the concept of intelligence and some of the methods of measuring intelligence.
Intelligence and Adaptability • What does it mean to say that intelligence is a social construct? Intelligence is a social construct because it was created by Western civilization as a means to measure how smart an individual is. It has been deemed a racist measurement tool for the way it has been used throughout history to report that Caucasians have a higher intelligence than other races. Basically the idea of intelligence is man-made, therefore a social construct. • What do two children from dramatically different cultures (a boy working on an arrow and a girl working on a computer) have in ...
