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There are different types of intelligence. I’m good at cooking but bad at math. Some people excel at physical endeavors but might have difficulties with languag
by nefitty 5y ago
There are different types of intelligence. I’m good at cooking but bad at math. Some people excel at physical endeavors but might have difficulties with language. “Poor intellect” means nothing at best. “Poor language skills” more effectively conveys what you seem to have intended to convey, although you did it without any source or backing argument.
- bitwize 5y agoYeah, statistics says no. Cognitive aptitude in one area correlates very strongly with aptitude in other areas, leading the people who measure this stuff to conclude that there is pretty much one factor for general intelligence. The rest is training. You're bad at math because you're ill-practiced at it and/or you never found a way to overcome your math anxiety.
- oh_sigh 5y agoWell what if a person has a high intellect but is ill-practiced in English?
- majormajor 5y agoLet's say that's correct - the person you're replying to is still more correct than the one they were replying to: a misused word could not distinguish poor intellect from unfamiliarity.
- necovek 5y agoI don't think there's an obligation in a comment to address the parent of a post you are responding to, let alone all the parents which we'd get if that obligation was there and transitive :) You can also address only a part of the comment, like I did here. For instance, I have not given an opinion on the latter part of your comment.
- bradknowles 5y agoThe Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation disagrees with you, and they’ve been studying aptitudes since 1922. See https://jocrf.org/aptitudes https://jocrf.org/aptitudes