{"id":7205,"date":"2018-05-08T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:33:06","slug":"the-non-contributions-of-robert-sternberg-to-isir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2018\/05\/the-non-contributions-of-robert-sternberg-to-isir\/","title":{"rendered":"The non-contributions of Robert Sternberg to ISIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year (2018) Robert Sternberg is slated to give a distinguished contributor interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isironline.org\/2018-july-13-15-in-edinburgh-uk\/\">the ISIR meeting to be held in Edinburgh<\/a>. There&#8217;s already tons of material on his behavior:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extreme self-citations: https:\/\/replicationindex.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/22\/robert-sternbergs-rise-to-fame\/<\/li>\n<li>Extreme text recycling (self-plagiarism): http:\/\/steamtraen.blogspot.fr\/2018\/04\/some-instances-of-apparent-duplicate.html<\/li>\n<li>Editorial role abuse: https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/04\/30\/prominent-psychologist-resigns-journal-editor-over-allegations-over-self-citation<\/li>\n<li>and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, here I want to point out an additional angle. Sternberg is slated to give an interview at a conference he has hardly contributed to. I&#8217;ve been to ISIR since 2015 (i.e., 2015, 2016, 2017) and Sternberg wasn&#8217;t present at any of them. Maybe he used to be more active? I downloaded every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isironline.org\/category\/conferences\/\">conference program from the ISIR website<\/a>. The first ISIR was in 2000, so we have data for 18 years. I searched every program for his contributions. I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2002-2007 he is on the advisory committee<\/li>\n<li>2002 he gives an invited talk (1 hour), with title <em>Converging operations in the construct validation of the theory of successful intelligence.<\/em> i.e. his favorite topic (aside from himself)<\/li>\n<li>2001 he gives a regular talk with the title <em>Larger-Scale Empirical Tests of Aspects of the Theory of Successful Intelligence<\/em><\/li>\n<li>nothing else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do want to note that a number of talks given over the years were highly critical of his model: Afonso 2008, Long and Thompson 2006, McDaniel and Whetzel 2003 (titled <em>The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes<\/em>), Gottfredson 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year (2018) Robert Sternberg is slated to give a distinguished contributor interview at the ISIR meeting to be held in Edinburgh. There&#8217;s already tons of material on his behavior: Extreme self-citations: https:\/\/replicationindex.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/22\/robert-sternbergs-rise-to-fame\/ Extreme text recycling (self-plagiarism): http:\/\/steamtraen.blogspot.fr\/2018\/04\/some-instances-of-apparent-duplicate.html Editorial role abuse: https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/04\/30\/prominent-psychologist-resigns-journal-editor-over-allegations-over-self-citation and more However, here I want to point out an additional angle. Sternberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2591],"tags":[2555,2637],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence-iq-cognitive-ability","tag-isir","tag-robert-sternberg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}