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Intelligence can't be generalised.
by xkcd1963 4y ago
Intelligence can't be generalised.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
- xkcd1963 4y agoYou could put the most intelligent person in the Savanna and they would just die, whilst a bushman will survive. Who was smarter in the end?
- fauxpause_ 4y ago[flagged]
- ForestCritter 4y agohmmm, but if you have two bushmen, one with a high IQ and one with a low IQ who will better survive. Or what if the most intelligent person in the Savanna was a bushman...So it depends on what you consider intelligence. Critical thinking is part of IQ testing and I would expect a wiley bushman to be good at critical thinking if he is going to survive.
- xkcd1963 4y agoExactly. People that want to apply IQ see it as a general performance metric. But general performance has many different aspects. In the example of the bushman it does not matter how fast you can count the alphabet,.it won't be helping your survival.
- poisonarena 4y agothe most intelligent person, you already answered your question
- xkcd1963 4y agomost intelligent according to your IQ metrics