I always find it so strange and a little creepy to treat "intelligent" as a category like "brown haired" or "diabetic." You take a test and receive a score (an

I always find it so strange and a little creepy to treat "intelligent" as a category like "brown haired" or "diabetic." You take a test and receive a score (an "intelligence score" apparently) and if you are past X points you are intelligent. Now you are among the set of intelligent people in the world. I know this is an agreed upon reality (especially among us nerdy types), but it always rubbed me the wrong way. Even bracketing off all the very real issues around measurement tools here, it always felt in general like neurotic pursuit to quantify the qualitative, or even an egoistic pursuit to claim superiority out of thin air. And I read articles like these, and I can't help but feel slightly validated despite their presuppositions: maybe there isnt a spectrum of intelligences, but just heterogenous minds. We have come up with these tests, but they just show how well a person is at that test that we happen to call "an intelligence test." But you start digging deeply with the numbers... and of course you going to get counter intuitive results! You have investigated categories that are themselves sustained out of thinnest of scientific consensus and dubious ideological origins, delegating your measurement to fraught tools laden with cultural specificity. It just feels crazy to me, it feels like never leaving grade school. But maybe they'll find "intelligence" one day, and then I'll have to eat my shoe while waiting in line to be recycled because I didn't pass muster as an intelligent human.