I've always found it quite odd how many Americans seem to equate IQ with intelligence. They seem to use the words interchangeably. Like one guy on Facebook I encountered talked about the high IQ of Drumpf and Sarah Palin and how they were in the top 99%. Apart from not being able to substantiate such a figure, the guy couldn't respond when it was pointed out that having the skills to sell yourself is not the same thing as having specific skills that a leader needs such as diplomacy, logistics, scientific literacy for example.
Intelligence requires an environment to adapt to and depending on the environment that will require different skills. A human would not be intelligent for example if they have been raised since birth in a sensory deprivation chamber with tubes delivering all their bodily. Dogs seem pretty stupid to us when placed in a human environment, but their sense of smell is so much better than ours. They can smell things that we would not think even possible. Most of the brain is devoted to fundamentally important functions, like vision, smell, hearing, proprioception etc.
Intelligence requires an environment to adapt to and depending on the environment that will require different skills. A human would not be intelligent for example if they have been raised since birth in a sensory deprivation chamber with tubes delivering all their bodily. Dogs seem pretty stupid to us when placed in a human environment, but their sense of smell is so much better than ours. They can smell things that we would not think even possible. Most of the brain is devoted to fundamentally important functions, like vision, smell, hearing, proprioception etc.
