Estimation of Intelligence

[A_Nony_Mouse]

Academia, as it's the absolute definition (even though as an "absolute" it doesn't account for times when universities or formal education didn't exist. I guess paleolithic and neolithic peoples were all dumb lol.. Or these people cannot discern CULTURAL DEFINITIONS of intelligence...)

I believe intelligence is reasoning, wisdom and action. Generally, it's how somebody perceives the world around them, can problem-solve, can articulate and process their surroundings and experiences.

One is not going to say they were dumb but scores for IQ and related tests slowly increase over the years and have to be renormalized for a higher average. It is not teaching to the test as that cannot be done for IQ tests. As it occurs every decade or two it is too fast for a natural selection process.

It is suggested that IQ is like muscles the more it is exercised the higher it gets. This means simply that modern society is more complex than rural society a couple centuries ago. So every day people are doing the kinds of problems that are on these tests.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes. Obviously (and to preempt some of the stupid people) you can't get some exact score by judging someone's posts on here, but you can get a general idea of the really smart and really stupid people on here. What I find humorous however are those who call people stupid just when they disagree with them.

Edit: Also I think it goes far deeper than just someone's writing ability which is obviously a small portion of intelligence altogether. There is also the ability to present an idea, back it up and defend it. Also the ability to comprehend other people's ideas and respond to them intelligently. The people who tend to give rote forum replies in response to complicated ideas I don't think are particularly bright.

Do you mean like in this thread?

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