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You haven't met people who are, basically, dumb as posts. They're good people for the most part, but they are literally dumb as posts. As a less offensive exam
by manv1 4y ago
You haven't met people who are, basically, dumb as posts. They're good people for the most part, but they are literally dumb as posts.
As a less offensive example, there are people who literally cannot comprehend a=b, b=c, a=c. They just can't do it.
There are people who can't do abstraction.
There are people who can't do accounting, because they get stuck on debit/credit.
There are people who can't hold huge multidimensional models in their heads.
There may be various measures of intelligence, but no matter what the measure there will always be someone at the bottom of it.
- nerdponx 4y agoI said "most people" and "most things" because yeah, some people really do have a low level of general intelligence and will struggle. I know a social worker whose job for a very long time was finding employment for people with IQs in the 50s, and they really struggled with a lot of things. There is a lot of research into IQ demonstrating that some kind of underlying general intelligence probably does exist. The point of my post was not to deny this, but to assert that what we perceive as intelligence in our day-to-day lives might not be something as deep as that.