![]() As well as being an important lesson in not judging people by your own preconceptions (and maybe about doing better groundwork before beginning an experiment), this example shows how the very concept of intelligence is seriously affected by the environment and preconceptions of society. These are people who live off the land, so sorting things into arbitrary categories would be a meaningless and wasteful activity, something a ‘fool’ would do. The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To Kindle Edition by Dean Burnett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,855 ratings Quality issues reported Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. This was deemed ‘less’ intelligent, but clearly the Kpelle disagreed. ![]() But the Kpelle always sorted things into function (things I can eat, things I can wear, things I can dig with). The researchers decided that sorting items into categories (tools, animals, items made of stone, wood, and so on), something that required abstract thinking and processing, was more intelligent. ![]() “Given the language and cultural barriers, the tests involved sorting items into groups. ![]()
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