Neil W. Rickert (1998) Intelligence is not Rational . Psycoloquy: 9(51) Social Bias (3)
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Psycoloquy 9(51): Intelligence is not Rational

INTELLIGENCE IS NOT RATIONAL
Commentary on Krueger on Social-Bias

Neil W. Rickert
Department of Computer Science
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
http://ux.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/

rickert@cs.niu.edu

Abstract

Krueger is concerned with psychological experiments which purport to show that humans are irrational. He argues that the experimental results are partly the outcome of unwise experimental design. While granting Krueger's point, I suggest that the problem is more basic. The very idea of rational behavior, as it is usually conceived, is incompatible with what we understand as human intelligence.

Keywords

creativity, intelligence, norm, rationality.

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