Jul 31, 2006 08:11
intelligence can be measured as someones profeciency at a certain skill or set of skills relative to their exposure to these skills. for example, someone who is a grand master mason after one years is naturally smarter than someone who is a grand master mason after three years, all things being equal.
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o and you spelt savant wrong. you spelt it 'sevant.' its savant, with two 'a's.
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I think it would have to depend on your definition of the word smart, or intelligent, which is basically what we're arguing over here. How exactly does one define intelligence?
As Justin and I studied in Psychology, this particular question has been argued over for years, and if scholars and professors at some of the top Universities in the world haven't figured it out yet, I highly doubt we will. For example, Howard Gardner (someone we studied), a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, said that intelligence comes in seven forms (his Theory of Multiple Intelligences).
According to Gardner (1999a), intelligence is much more than IQ because a high IQ in the absence of productivity does not equate to intelligence. In his definition, "Intelligence is a biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in ( ... )
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