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There is virtually universal agreement that people differ in their mental competencies. Such variations are captured under the rubric “intelligence”. But what does this mean? Natural philosophers have speculated about the nature and cause of intelligence for more than two thousand years. (There are explicit references to the concept in the Iliad.) No agreement has been reached. Similarly, over one hundred years of scientific study have failed to provide a generally accepted theory of either the nature or causes of individual difference in mental competence. Why?
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Hunt, E. (1987). A Cognitive Model of Individual Differences, with an Application to Attention. In: Irvine, S.H., Newstead, S.E. (eds) Intelligence and Cognition: Contemporary Frames of Reference. NATO ASI Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9437-5_4
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