Re: relationship between SAT scores and intelligence?
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Yeah, I don't consider any of those except creativity (of a sort) to be constitutive for intelligence.
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what's your point, other than that the definition of intelligence is arbitrary?
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I think his point is that you guys are BADLY abusing the definition of intelligence so that every little kid gets to be called intelligence "in his own little way." Honestly you guys, intelligence isnt just a synonym for "vaguely good." It has meaninging. When you start to lump into intelligence basically EVERY SINGLE HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC that most people would consider positive, it starts to become foolish.
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i see where you are coming from, but also remember that 15,000 years ago being good at math didn't mean [censored], but if you could hunt really well you were highly regarded (most likely of course). in differnet cultures intelligence is defined differently; there were polls done of different people in different countries asking what makes someone smart. people in spain said that it was social ability, in an african tribe it was the ability to work with the community as a group and to follow elders. these are vastly differnet from the western definition of intelligence, but does that make them any less valid? intelligence when it comes down to is the metric of qualities a specific cultures holds in high regard, which is why there is no universal definition of intelligence
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