What's your IQ? Does it really matter?

The New York Times recently turned to a group of noted scholars to find out what they considered to be today's most overrated idea. The first choice of Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, was intelligence testing.

Intelligence is surely expressed in many different, unique ways.

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March 30, 1998
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