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Here we are thinking you're not very smart for making a comment like that. The fact is that there is no single "smart". Instead there are many aptitudes, which
by solipsism 8y ago
Here we are thinking you're not very smart for making a comment like that.
The fact is that there is no single "smart". Instead there are many aptitudes, which combine and overlap to make people good or bad at specific skills.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was strong, but an average rock climber could best him at rock climbing. The average long distance runner could run laps around him.
We all understand this to be the case with respect to physical activities, but for some reason this idea of single-faceted intelligence persists.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoI'm not positing single-faceted intelligence. (Which does exist, there are obvious kinds of brain problems that hurt you at every task.) I'm saying their intellectual talent is what makes them better than OP. Their natural ability. The stuff that's useful for programming contests, obviously. Low on geometry, high on logic and algebra, good for one-hour problems moreso than research, that sort of math.