Definition of intelligence
Lund Spacestation
11-05-2006, 09:38
How is intelligence defined? Is it the ability to think creative? Is it the sense of logic? Emotions? Knowledge?
How is intelligence defined? Is it the ability to think creative? Is it the sense of logic? Emotions? Knowledge?
It is the person's postcount.
Lund Spacestation
11-05-2006, 09:40
It is the person's postcount.
I know I'm not very smart :D
Saint Curie
11-05-2006, 09:43
I used to think it was "perceptive adaptability across a broad range of applications".
Now, I just think intelligence is the quality missing from people who necessitate warning disclaimers on hammers.
Perkeleenmaa
11-05-2006, 09:48
Intelligence is the skill to do tests.
When I do an intelligence test, I feel it's more like an exercise for the working memory rather than pattern-finding or such. Is it just me?
Brains in Tanks
11-05-2006, 09:49
Intelligence is the ability not to die not based upon luck or how thick your skull is.
Xislakilinia
11-05-2006, 10:00
Intelligence is the lack of ability to be drawn into dickfights over intelligence.
Pure Metal
11-05-2006, 10:19
It is the person's postcount.
indeed, mortal ;) :D
or, the ability to google! or use wikipedia...
First, from "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" a report of a task force convened by the American Psychological Association in 1995:
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. [1]
A second definition of intelligence comes from "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994;
a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do. (reprinted in Gottfredson, 1997, p. 13) [2]
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is a psychological and educational theory espousing that seven kinds of "intelligence" exist in humans, each relating to a different sphere of human life and activity.
Verbal-linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Visual-spatial
Body-kinesthetic
Auditory-musical
Interpersonal communication
Intrapersonal communication
:)
Eutrusca
11-05-2006, 11:39
How is intelligence defined? Is it the ability to think creative? Is it the sense of logic? Emotions? Knowledge?
An ability to adapt to reality by manipulating it in new ways.
Eutrusca
11-05-2006, 11:43
It is the person's postcount.
HA! Then what am I doing here? I should be advising NASA, or competing with Bill Gates for "world's richest man," or finding a way to institute world peace, or something!
intellegence is your ability to learn and create in any number of vast subjects, may it be in just one or a multitude. If you think of it in those terms then everyone's a genius:D !
Dinaverg
12-05-2006, 02:00
HA! Then what am I doing here? I should be advising NASA, or competing with Bill Gates for "world's richest man," or finding a way to institute world peace, or something!
Bah, there's folks in Spam smarter than j00. :p
Vegas-Rex
12-05-2006, 02:01
Intelligence is a measure of how much you respect people's behavior. The more the way they act approximates your subconscious gague of "alphaness", the more intelligent they seem.
Intelligent = Not stupid.
Ginnoria
12-05-2006, 02:34
mmk, u r all rong. inteligunts is wut u yoos 2 figyer owt problums. i am liek veri inteligunt b cuz i no taht teh mor problums u doo teh mor inteligunt u git. if u doo not do problums n stuf u r liek stoopid k
How is intelligence defined? Is it the ability to think creative? Is it the sense of logic? Emotions? Knowledge?
Ceribral Fitness.
Ginnoria
12-05-2006, 02:37
Ceribral Fitness.
Haha, it's cerebral.
mmk, u r all rong. inteligunts is wut u yoos 2 figyer owt problums. i am liek veri inteligunt b cuz i no taht teh mor problums u doo teh mor inteligunt u git. if u doo not do problums n stuf u r liek stoopid k
but u mus doo dem prooblims korekly. ef u doo dem rong, den u lern nuthin an u wil stil b stoopid.
Haha, it's cerebral.
hey you started it with...
mmk, u r all rong. inteligunts is wut u yoos 2 figyer owt problums. i am liek veri inteligunt b cuz i no taht teh mor problums u doo teh mor inteligunt u git. if u doo not do problums n stuf u r liek stoopid k :D
Protagenast
12-05-2006, 07:07
The ability to assimilate and process information, adapt it to your social/economic environment and still keep a sense of humor.
Saint Curie
12-05-2006, 07:38
The ability to assimilate and process information, adapt it to your social/economic environment and still keep a sense of humor.
"Dr. Noreen Thompson will now appear to present the process that led to her critical and groundbreaking discoveries that have developed new energy vectors, stabilized world markets, and brought peace to the mid....uh...why is she not wearing pants?"
Santa Barbara
12-05-2006, 07:41
"Dr. Noreen Thompson will now appear to present the process that led to her critical and groundbreaking discoveries that have developed new energy vectors, stabilized world markets, and brought peace to the mid....uh...why is she not wearing pants?"
because it was stapled to the chicken lol