Why, different levels of intelligence.

Zach Alie · Yesterday 15:42:41

Why do you think some people are more intelligent, have better memory retention and think and solve faster, is it because they have more nuerons, or something else about they're brains, and does this intelligence hierarchy actually exist or is it made up to make people competitive?

Jai Ganesh · Yesterday 16:30:59

Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person's intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria. Concepts of "intelligence" are attempts to clarify and organize this complex set of phenomena. Although considerable clarity has been achieved in some areas, no such conceptualization has yet answered all the important questions, and none commands universal assent. Indeed, when two dozen prominent theorists were recently asked to define intelligence, they gave two dozen, somewhat different, definitions.

Human

Human intelligence is the intellectual power of humans, which is marked by complex cognitive feats and high levels of motivation and self-awareness. Intelligence enables humans to remember descriptions of things and use those descriptions in future behaviors. It gives humans the cognitive abilities to learn, form concepts, understand, and reason, including the capacities to recognize patterns, innovate, plan, solve problems, and employ language to communicate. These cognitive abilities can be organized into frameworks like fluid vs. crystallized and the Unified Cattell-Horn-Carroll model, which contains abilities like fluid reasoning, perceptual speed, verbal abilities, and others.

Intelligence is different from learning. Learning refers to the act of retaining facts and information or abilities and being able to recall them for future use. Intelligence, on the other hand, is the cognitive ability of someone to perform these and other processes.

Intelligence quotient (IQ)

There have been various attempts to quantify intelligence via psychometric testing. Prominent among these are the various Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests, which were first developed in the early 20th century to screen children for intellectual disability. Over time, IQ tests became more pervasive, being used to screen immigrants, military recruits, and job applicants. As the tests became more popular, belief that IQ tests measure a fundamental and unchanging attribute that all humans possess became widespread.

An influential theory that promoted the idea that IQ measures a fundamental quality possessed by every person is the theory of General Intelligence, or g factor. The g factor is a construct that summarizes the correlations observed between an individual's scores on a range of cognitive tests.

Today, most psychologists agree that IQ measures at least some aspects of human intelligence, particularly the ability to thrive in an academic context. However, many psychologists question the validity of IQ tests as a measure of intelligence as a whole.

Zach Alie · Yesterday 16:53:16

A few days ago i watched a video on different levels of intelligence, where there was said that people from ranges of subnormal (need help to do basic cognitive tasks) to trancendant (those that indulged in very complex areas and questioned and thought of different out of the box perspectives), even though you said intelligence involves various factors and variables, some differences were quite substantial, examples given were like carl jung, socrates, buddha and various others who were considered on such a league where there thought and ideas were percieved as foreign and dangerous but proved to be more efficient in the long run,and certain of these people were able to make connections between wide varieties of subjects known as polymaths. I know intelligence differs on different scales, but isnt it also true that when you compare the normal person to a such a trancendant level intelligence person, it seems the overall intelligence and effficiency of that person is a lot higher and there cognitive ability spans over multiple subjects and is more flexible, than the average person, so wouldn't it be true to say the trancendant person is more intelligent and exceptional than the normal person, by normal here i mean can perform basic cognitive processes and problem solving, not having as you say that further intellectual ability.

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KerimF · Yesterday 17:53:24

May I add a fact which is also related to intelligence?

Let us assume that A is more intelligent than B. Isn't it possible for B to know useful things that A has no idea of?
I mean, a more effective factor in one's life than his intelligence is 'necessity'. Not in vain we used hearing:
"Necessity is the mother of invention/innovation."

Even the most intelligent person won't solve a problem that some others may do if he has no interest to solve it.
And an ordinary person may solve a problem that he really needs to do while his finding (useful to him in the least) is not known by anyone else.

Zach Alie · Yesterday 22:16:35

I did not say higher intelligence directly means better capability or ability, as they say talent without work is nothing, i just said does it makes a difference if two persons both doing intellectual work have a difference in their work due to a difference in say intelligence or intellectual ability.

KerimF · Today 03:29:43

Zach Alie wrote:

I did not say higher intelligence directly means better capability or ability, as they say talent without work is nothing, i just said does it makes a difference if two persons both doing intellectual work have a difference in their work due to a difference in say intelligence or intellectual ability.

If they have both exactly the same level of interest to do an intellectual work, the one who make it better and faster is a sign of being more intelligent. But even in this case, the result could be confusing if one made the work better and the other one made it much faster but not as good as the first one did.

On the other hand, when I meet someone, I usually suppose he is as intelligent as I am, but just his interests in life could be very different from mine which let us also have different sets of knowledge (and skills).

Zach Alie · Today 04:17:51

Yes, things like intelligence are very ambigous, so they can't be calculated with utmost certainty, however unlike you i first assess someones intellectual ability by interacting with them (although even here their is discrepancy as different people using my method might get different results, and even i cannot say that i can perfectly calculate someones intelligence) like talking, discussing ideas, philosophical or scientific reasoning and the like and the properties i most look out for are: out of the box thinking, thinking in different perspectives, flexibilty (not the apologistic type), freedom of thought, broader views, quickness, wittiness, focused, clarified and understandable breaking down of concepts as i firmly believe Richard Feynmanns saying that to truly know if someone understands something, they should be able to condense a certain topic in a few sentences, kind of like picking up the main idea, i believe people who try to manuever and be dismissive or people who use many words with less significance to the main topic, to in certain cases hide their understanding of a concept are not as intelligent as certain other people, although don't take this for absolute truth this is just my experience and perhaps the experience of certain other people, however their can be subjectivity and bias based on the person, and their ability to assess a situation.

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