Intelligence
- Harcar77+
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Intelligence
- Harcar77+
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Re: Intelligence
- Pattern-chaser
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Re: Intelligence
Such comparisons are rarely useful, IMO. Intelligence is just one of many skills and attributes a human can have, and they all matter. They interact too, to some extent. To focus tightly on one skill is to lose the relevance of all the others. If I am less intelligent than you, but much wiser, how can we be compared? If I am a gifted social communicator, and you are very strong, which of us is 'superior'?
We all have a large collection of skills, so many that it's difficult to compare us in any meaningful way.
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Re: Intelligence
Several things.Harcar77+ wrote: ↑July 4th, 2022, 6:50 am I am not sure where this post belongs. My Mum recently said that I am much more intelligent than my husband in every way. He did well at school with the exception of a couple of subjects he didn’t do particularly well in. He wasn’t a swot but he wasn’t lazy either. He did a degree as an adult and got a fair pass mark. He has never progress in terms of work and isn’t management level despite being nearly 50. He isn’t a natural when it comes to life skills but won’t listen to advice from more experienced people and he can be uneducated when it comes to difference and diversity. I did ok but not that well at school maybe due to undiagnosed learning problems. I was mostly like my husband not a swot but not lazy, though early on in high school I went through a lazy phase. I gained a diploma as an adult with a good mark. When my learning disorder was diagnosed my verbal iq was 104/105 my non verbal iq was 70s or 80s my overall iq was 88. I do take advice on life skills better as they don’t come naturally to me and I apply them and I feel I am better educated on diversity. Am I more intelligent than my husband?
What's a swot?
I would bet your mother's assessment is biased, one way or another.
I agree with PC that "intelligence" as a term is commonly used to describe attributes beyond intellectual processing ability and that actual intelligence does not correlate well with success.
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