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How oft en have you attributed someone’s inability to complete satisfactorily a task or undertake a role to a lack of intelligence? ‘He’s a sausage short of a fry up’. ‘The lights are on but nobody’s there’. We could probably all list disparaging expressions that hint that someone might not have the cognitive ability to function well at a particular level.
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© 2014 John Taylor, Adrian Furnham, and Janet Breeze
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Taylor, J., Furnham, A., Breeze, J. (2014). Intelligence. In: Revealed. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325938_4
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