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Also: Who's more intelligent, the person who spends time and energy on memorizing phone numbers or the one who buys a notebook?
by anoncake 7y ago
Also: Who's more intelligent, the person who spends time and energy on memorizing phone numbers or the one who buys a notebook?
- gowld 7y agoWorking memory is tremendously useful for a wide range of intellectual tasks. Imagine a CPU with an eternal spinning-rust hard drive and no cache, vs a computer with a 10x slower CPU and a 4MB cache. Which do you thing is more powerful at solving problems?
- anoncake 7y agoOf course working memory is important and should be tested in an IQ test. But so is being able to use tools to augment yourself and work around your weaknesses. And having a specialized ability to memorize numbers is quite useless.