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> I've never understood how finding patterns in shapes like that seems to be the last word in intelligence for some people. The speed at which a person can rec
by mywittyname 5y ago
> I've never understood how finding patterns in shapes like that seems to be the last word in intelligence for some people.
The speed at which a person can recognize patterns correlates strongly with their ability to learn in general.
The reason they use shapes is because it's a more universal measurement. Using words introduces issues with a person's ability to speak that language.
- everdrive 5y agoIf only a person's grasp on language were correlated with intelligence.
- mywittyname 5y agoIt is, but only for languages that a person has learned. How well would you do on any test written in Japanese? Assuming you never learned Japanese. Probably poorly. But if you knew a little bit of Japanese, you might do fine on a math test. And that's the idea with shape-based tests: trying to minimize the influence that language comprehension has on the results because you want the results to be neutral.
- brnaftr361 5y agoIntelligence is an error of reification.