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This episode talks a bit about one of the first (and very crude) attempts to understand intelligence. The topic of intelligence is fascinating and here is a fascinating talk by Sir Ken Robinson about our need to redefine the concept of intelligence and how important creativity will be in our world.

Falsifiable

Karl Popper’s concept of falsifiability is an essential concept in science and important for anyone interested in critical thinking to understand. It boils down to this: it is essential for a prediction to be falsifiable: in other words, a good prediction can come out false.

• Bad Prediction/Hypothesis: "Something will happen to someone, somewhere at sometime this year". It’s bad because it is so vague it will most certainly come true no matter how it is interpreted.
• Good Prediction/Hypothesis: "Patients given XYZ drug will show a significant decrease on the Beck Depression Inventory over control subjects within 6 months from the beginning of treatment"