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What is intelligence to you?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:40 pm
Visited a buddy this weekend and it got me thinking. He goes to a good school, has better grades than I did in a much tougher major. But at one point,I asked him to describe the building to me to prove a point.
He couldn't do it. The most he could get out of it was "it's a building." I asked him to be more specific but he never did. It made me think a fair amount since then.
What is intelligence. It's defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. But I think that definition is leaving something out. It's leaving out. Something about the ability of man to create or originate. Or the ability to solve complicated problems correctly as they arise without necessarily being able to take the time to study the problems for the right answers.
tl:dr how would you personally define intelligence?
He couldn't do it. The most he could get out of it was "it's a building." I asked him to be more specific but he never did. It made me think a fair amount since then.
What is intelligence. It's defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. But I think that definition is leaving something out. It's leaving out. Something about the ability of man to create or originate. Or the ability to solve complicated problems correctly as they arise without necessarily being able to take the time to study the problems for the right answers.
tl:dr how would you personally define intelligence?
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Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:41 pm to athenslife101
I'll bring this up at my next Mensa convention.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:44 pm to Odinson
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I'll bring this up at my next Mensa convention.
please don't bring that nasty 7 layer dip again.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:44 pm to Odinson
They don't have a manual for this shite?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:45 pm to athenslife101
Ability to hold a conversation on a variety of topics without coming off as a dumbass.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:46 pm to athenslife101
quote:The frick kinda question is that? It has nothing to do with intelligence.
But at one point,I asked him to describe the building to me to prove a point.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:47 pm to athenslife101
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What is intelligence. It's defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. But I think that definition is leaving something out. It's leaving out. Something about the ability of man to create or originate. Or the ability to solve complicated problems correctly as they arise without necessarily being able to take the time to study the problems for the right answers.
Certainly not this paragraph.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:47 pm to athenslife101
What fricking building?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:47 pm to athenslife101
quote:hmmm. not exactly sure what you mean
,I asked him to describe the building to me to prove a point.
What building are you talking about?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:47 pm to athenslife101
Problem solving.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:47 pm to AlexLSU
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Ability to hold a conversation on a variety of topics without coming off as a dumbass.
I don't like this definition. I can't hold a conversation about Pokemon, but that says nothing about my intelligence.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:50 pm to athenslife101
Were y'all smoking some shite when this conversation took place?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:50 pm to athenslife101
There's different types of intelligence brah. Some guys are dumber than a sack of rocks but can figure out a way to fix damn near anything. Some people couldn't use a screwdriver but can solve abstract problems like nobody's business. Some people aren't good at much of anything but are amazing musicians. Etc, etc. All are types of intelligence and all have their place.
Life's no pissing contest, run your own race
Life's no pissing contest, run your own race
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:50 pm to Scruffy
Using socratic method about my line of thinking for why I do something. That story could have been edited out but it was the conversation that made me start thinking about it.
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:51 pm to athenslife101
To me intelligence is very hard to quantify. Most of our popular means of measuring intelligence are only slightly efficient.
I know a lot of people who have good grades at good schools, but overall they are still fairly dumb and immature. I've also known people that dropped out of school that were extremely smart in their own ways. IMO there are at least several different types of intelligence.
I know a lot of people who have good grades at good schools, but overall they are still fairly dumb and immature. I've also known people that dropped out of school that were extremely smart in their own ways. IMO there are at least several different types of intelligence.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:51 pm to LSUEnvy
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Were y'all smoking some shite when this conversation took place?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:51 pm to athenslife101
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What is intelligence to you?
That thing that I have more of than most.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:51 pm to athenslife101
It only matters if he doesn't know what a hose-pipe is.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:52 pm to touchdownjeebus
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please don't bring that nasty 7 layer dip again.
yeah that shite was nazzy. the deviled eggs on the other hand......
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:52 pm to LordSaintly
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I don't like this definition. I can't hold a conversation about Pokemon, but that says nothing about my intelligence.
I didn't say every topic. Who the frick would judge someone's intelligence off of a Pokemon conversation? Why are you even mentioning Pokemon?
ETA: Politics, current events, different industries, markets, cultures etc. are topics I'm more or less referring to.
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 11:55 pm
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