[quote]Marlind wrote:
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Cool story. +7 internet points to you.
What is Intelligence?
In this country, Intelligence is actually knowing how to work a 4 way stop whith 3 other cars stopped.
I think different mental abilities constitute distinct types of intelligence.
I also know that intelligence and rationality are not the same thing.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Marlind wrote:
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Cool story. +7 internet points to you.[/quote]
whatever…ive searched the topic really well…
If people consider you intelligent because you are pompous then they must be quite dumb. Personnally whenever someone do that I switch off
[quote]Marlind wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Marlind wrote:
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Cool story. +7 internet points to you.[/quote]
whatever…ive searched the topic really well…[/quote]
the topic of yourself?
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Well, I’ll take a stab at a definition, which quite likely is different than most:
Intelligence is that which enables a person, for reasons other than physical attributes, to perform tasks or activities that an animal cannot.
Greater intelligence in a given area relative to another person is exhibited by being able to in general perform the same tasks or activities in that area that the other person can and additionally perform many others that he cannot, again where physical attributes are not the involved factor, and assuming comparable exposure to education.[/quote]
I agree with this. If person B can’t solve a certain problem, but A can, then A is more intelligent than B. As simple as that.
Of course, you can add a lot of caveats to this, like education, experience, blah, blah. But, everything else being equal, the ability of solving problems is the final standard.
My favorite caveat is attitude – In order to solve a problem that someone else couldn’t solve firstly you need to believe it can be solved and then you have to be motivated enough to tough it out and solve it.
[quote]sexy_animal wrote:
How do you define intelligence
The ultimate goal of my starting this thread was to, hopefully, learn a trick or two on how to get smarter in life. Does anybody have any interesting tips on how to be smarter?
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“The first act of insight is to throw away the labels”
Eudora Welty
Anyone can gain knowledge.
Intelligence is how you use your knowledge.
Wisdom is how you use your intelligence.
[quote]Marlind wrote:
basically it says that the difference between a genius and a high IQ person is that the genius has a disability to socially connect with people and he/she dedicates all his/her time to the studies and IMO a true genius has a HUGE imagination and a great curiosity…[/quote]
You should contact MENSA.
I graded essays for their regional scholarship program, so if you give me a look, I can give you a good idea as to whether or not it is passable.
[quote]Chalky09Aus wrote:
Anyone can gain knowledge.
Intelligence is how you use your knowledge.
Wisdom is how you use your intelligence.[/quote]
I like that.
What exactly is wrong with the dictionary definition? I didn’t realize this was up for debate.
intelligence: capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
[quote]Chalky09Aus wrote:
Anyone can gain knowledge.
Intelligence is how you use your knowledge.
Wisdom is how you use your intelligence.[/quote]
I like that.
What exactly is wrong with the dictionary definition? I didn’t realize this was up for debate.
intelligence: capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
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I dont think anyone has a problem with it per say, but it is the type of thing that is flexible beyond definition in language and therefore, I don’t think anyone disagrees on what it is to be intelligent, they merely disagree on how to explain intelligence.
All philosophical problems are merely a problem of language. As Wichtenstein would tell us.
The definition and testing of intelligence is a hotly debated topic amongst psychologists. Probably the two key questions are:
- Is intelligence general or specific?
- If it’s specific, what intelligences are there?
These days most psychologists accept that there are multiple kinds of intelligence – ie, it’s specific. So consequently there’s no one “general factor” g which affects all aspects of thought, recall and behaviour.
Generally what is thought of as “intelligence” in regular life are assigned to gf and gc – fluid and crystallised intelligence. Fluid intelligence is adapting and resolving novel situations; crystallised intelligence is recalling and applying learned information.
Testing for intelligences in isolation is tricky. For example, most early tests were culturally-biased. Questions about life in the USA might occasionally trip up a person in UK and would frequently stump folk from very different countries. Creating a culturally-neutral test of crystallised intelligence is arguably impossible. This understandably makes it hard to test.
Then you have the problem of how to measure fluid intelligence by creating tests with an endless sequence of unique problems with no relationship with what the test subject might have learned before. The most popular test of fluid intelligence is Raven’s Progressive Matrices, which involves correctly predicting the next arrangement of patterns, given three in a series and four alternative final results. These start off easy and get fairly fiendish quite quickly.
“IQ” is the name given to a class of test suites which are integrated into a single composite index. They tell you very little about a person’s strengths or weaknesses. More to the point, the test suites are different from one another, so it’s meaningless to give an IQ score without naming the test. 150 under Stanford-Binet is different to 150 under WISC-III, for example.
Some interesting thoughts in this thread.
My take - Intelligence is the capability of learning to learn. That which engenders faster adaptation to a rapidly changing environment.
I’ve encountered more than a few people who thought intelligence was the ability to argue. Such people tend to run argumentative behavioral patterns which probably explains why they think arguing is intelligent. Often formulating a good argument requires the suspending of intelligence.
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
[quote]Marlind wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Marlind wrote:
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Cool story. +7 internet points to you.[/quote]
whatever…ive searched the topic really well…[/quote]
the topic of yourself?[/quote]
of the IQ…i just took for example the person i know best :P:P
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]Marlind wrote:
basically it says that the difference between a genius and a high IQ person is that the genius has a disability to socially connect with people and he/she dedicates all his/her time to the studies and IMO a true genius has a HUGE imagination and a great curiosity…[/quote]
You should contact MENSA.
I graded essays for their regional scholarship program, so if you give me a look, I can give you a good idea as to whether or not it is passable.
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thanx buddy…let me translate it and will PM it to you 
:)//
Intelligence is simplicity
simplicity