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MEASURING SCIENTIFIC WISDOM

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The current study developed measures of scientific wisdom as practiced within the field ofgeneral sciences. A total of 125 Cornell undergraduates participated in the study, and we examined the relationship among the following scales: Scientific Reasoning, Scientific Wisdom, Scientific Creativity, a typical-performance scale of self-assessed wisdom scale (SAWS), and three psychometric tests. The results showed that the first three scales formed one clear principal component while the psychometric tests of intelligence, SAT and ACT scores, and GPA formed another, which suggested that the scientific tests we created assessed abilities that were different from general intelligence (g). This finding implied that colleges and universities that are seeking future scientists would want to consider supplementing the g-based conventional tests with tests that measure skills related to scientific reasoning, scientific wisdom, and scientific creativity.

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38 pages

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2020-12

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cognitive scales; college admissions tests; general intelligence; scientific creativity; scientific reasoning; scientific wisdom

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Sternberg, Robert J.

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Bian, Lin

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Human Development

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M.A., Human Development

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Master of Arts

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