Pluralistic ignorance
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but go along with it because they incorrectly assume that most others accept it. This is also described as "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes". In short, pluralistic ignorance is a bias about a social group, held by the members of that social group.
What Is Intelligence?
Flynn offers a framework for further developing theories of intelligence. The framework involves three conceptual levels for understanding intelligence:
Flynn goes on to criticize conceptual imperialism as being a particular error in which those various levels are confused with one single level—for example brain or social differences being seen primarily in terms of general-intelligence, a concept from the individual-differences level.