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Psychologist Robert Sternberg defined intelligence as "mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environment
by 2snakes 4y ago
Psychologist Robert Sternberg defined intelligence as "mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one's life."
- mlyle 4y agoOne definition of many. First, it's hard to rigorously reason about and convert to a quantitative metric. Second, it would seem to imply that many geniuses in the math and sciences are not very intelligent. Figuring out what we really mean is really hard.