Please share your thoughts on the questions below about intelligence. This is related to next week's topic of eugenics.
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What does being intelligent mean to you?
How do you judge if someone is intelligent/smart?
How would you measure intelligence?
I think intelligence is about the skills someone has and how well they can apply them. Those skills can be natural and/or taught. It can also be about empathy, it can be about boundaries. It’s humbling yourself when you truly don’t know something. Effort is also a part of intelligence. You put in effort to know what you didn’t know, to do something better than you could before. Basically it means thinking deeply and/or thinking strategically. I also consider good morals as a sign of intelligence. In the end though, intelligence varies, and it varies so widely it's hard to measure. We all make up society, so as long as individuals are doing their part (no matter how big or small) to make and keep society safe and healthy, they are intelligent. I think where people lie on the range of intelligence is even more subjective, so it's harder for me to describe. I suppose though, I tend to judge based on a person’s type of skill set and/or how many skill sets they have.
From the following classes:
What is "intelligence"?
- Definitions reliant on cultural knowledge
- Dependent on social interaction
--> Basically how you were taught to recognize intelligence is how you define it; culturally charged.
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