Neil W. Rickert (1998) Intelligence is not Rational
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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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