In Western society, we are used to summing up an individual’s intelligence into a single score reflective of how well they may perform in a universal IQ test. However, according to psychologist Howard Gardner, our understanding of IQ may be too narrow — each person has up to nine measures of intelligence, not just one.
A growing group of intellectuals believe that intelligence is divided into nine subgroups: Spatial, Naturalist, Musical, Logical-Mathematical, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, and Existential.
