(-: Thank you for your kind answers Paul.

> g is "general intelligence". If g exists, then all intelligent people are intelligent in the same way, and being good at maths or brilliant at chemistry is just the same thing showing up in different ways...
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> The current hot theory is that the whole argument is based on an oversimplification, and that the mind is a complex machine made up of a combination of general bits and specific bits, resulting in the ambiguous results that have been confusing people all this time.

So the current "hot line" in psychometrics is that testers have been using a blunted yardstick to size up the incorrect rabbit in the first place. No problem; with the growing body of MRI brain imaging research available, the field will have a paradigm shift any day now :-)

Wolfspirit