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What is your gender? || The smartest person you know personally is a:

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some of the best advice i ever got was, 'if you're ever the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room'

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Trouble with that is sometimes it feels like the wrong planet, amirite? (More seriously, intelligence is a multidimensional thing not a single quantity, so THE QUESTION IS FLAWED DAMMIT.)

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Intelligence means different things depending on how you mean it. IQ tests are pretty predictive of most types of intelligence. There's not a lot of good evidence for 'multiple types,' based on what I've researched.

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Not at all. IANAP, just saying the best information I have contradicts Aella's and that I can understand why it's still an issue on which there's not a lot of consensus.

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it also might be that we're using different ideas when we we're using the word intelligence

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Sure. If you define intelligence as aptitude at specific things then aptitude at other things isn't "intelligence," but that ends up being a bit circular. At the extreme it just means IQ tests test how good you are at IQ tests.

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