Part 15/17:
While acknowledging the existence of various intelligences—such as musical, linguistic, spatial, or kinesthetic—the speaker describes the scientific approach to validating these constructs. Through correlation analyses and regression models, psychologists determine whether these "multiple intelligences" provide additional predictive power beyond IQ.
He explains the statistical tools, such as factor analysis and multiple regression, used to dissect whether these intelligences represent distinct cognitive abilities or are simply manifestations of underlying personality traits or general intelligence.