Jul 31, 2010

Wisdom Scorecard

Awhile ago I had a wisdom test on this blog (results here) but I had no idea how to grade it. Today I discovered a "wisdom scorecard" developed by a sociologist at the University of Florida. It is 39 multiple-choice questions and, annoyingly, many of them are variations on the same thing. Take it for what it's worth (= not much), but I thought some readers might be interested.

A few problems I see with attempting to grade wisdom:
1. wisdom is highly contextual.
2. we are not internally wise; rather, we have moments of wisdom.
3. wisdom is about recognizing shades of gray, which means a black and white multiple choice questionnaire is inherently unwise.

P.S. - I scored a 4.2, placing me in the "relatively wise" range.