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It certainly can mean that they are less bright.

• loceng 12y ago
  It could mean they're more intelligent and more creative too, just perhaps not having the patience or mental structure for learning and applying mathematics, chemistry, whatever. So that makes comparisons a bit of a moot point, and so the focus should be a) getting people into activities where they're learning things they're motivated and interested in learning about, and b) treating everyone kindly, which means having compassion which means having understanding about how intelligences work, how people work, and not using language that tells a person what they're be or not be if they do one thing versus another. If you tell someone that they'll do well at something, they'll do better at it than if you tell them they'll do badly.