{"id":1014,"date":"2007-02-08T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2007-02-08T06:38:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T13:38:45","slug":"what-is-intelligence-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1014\/what-is-intelligence-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Intelligence, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just received this in an email from a friend. I liked it so much I wanted to pass it along here on the blog.<\/p>\n

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What Is Intelligence, Anyway?<\/strong>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn’t mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP – kitchen police – as my highest duty.)<\/p>\n

All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests – people with intellectual bents similar to mine?<\/p>\n

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles – and he always fixed my car.<\/p>\n

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just received this in an email from a friend. I liked it so much I wanted to pass it along here on the blog. __ What Is Intelligence, Anyway? Isaac Asimov What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18588,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18588\/overnight-news-i-have-more-than-enough-grit-to-delegate-my-scutwork-to-hyper-diligent-robots\/","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: I have more than enough grit to delegate my scutwork to hyper-diligent robots.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"One late-Summer Prime Day in 2019, from the depths of Death Valley \u2013 cancer brain, chemo brain, insane-in-the-membrane brain \u2013 Cathleen bought a Roomba, an \"artificially-intelligent\" robot vacuum. 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