11 Aug 2022 7:53 am
there are various kinds of intelligence. Spatial intelligence, for example can help you navigate with no map, remember where your keys are, find your way in the dark, etc. linguistic intelligence can help you communicate a series of important points in a short time. Different types of intelligence can save your life during different types of crises.FOS » 10 Aug 2022, 12:42 pm » wrote: ↑ intelligence itself is a rather vague word and open to interpretation.
the IQ test itself has a measurable value known as g, which basically represents across the board performance on the test...e.g. a highly stratified score will have little impact on g. the measure g seems to correspond most to what we intuitively consider 'intelligence'.
g has also been demonstrated as the most genetically heritable part of the iq test.
IQ has been studied in tremendous depth. there are a LOT of studies and literature on this general subject and it is not philosophy...it is science. Unfortunately the results of the science seems to make liberals cry, so there is some fake 'controversy' about it. but you can go ahead and read what the scientists have actually discovered about iq and g etc. There is no replication crisis in this field. it is very highly predictive.
sure, it is sortof like athletics. people can be gifted in general but in order to be very good at something you do need training. FOr the most part g determines how long it takes to undergo this training, not so much what your plateau is. (whereas athletic ability is somewhat the opposite)
intelligence is the mental acumen that has utility in the real world, I.e. being super philosophical is not a useful intelligence in my view because it renders no real world benefit for survival, success, etc..
If all the different types of intelligence are combined in a meta analysis, and one scores high on all of them, that person is exceptionally intelligent