“…This paper is specifically concerned with the perceived structure of intelligence using self-and other estimates of intelligence (Ackerman, Beier, & Boyle, 2002;Borkenau & Liebler, 1993). Many recent studies have looked at lay theories of intelligence (Paulhus & Landelt, 2000;Paulhus, Wehr, Harms, & Strasser, 2002;Sternberg, Conway, Ketron, & Bernstein, 1981;Wober, 1973). Sternberg (1990) distinguished two groups of academic psychologists: lumpers, who stressed the concept of general intelligence (all tests of cognitive ability are highly intercorrelated; Thurstone, 1938) and splitters, who argued that intelligence is made up of a number of specific mental faculties only loosely correlated.…”