No it’s not extremely accurate and it becomes less accurate the more times someone takes one or knows about the tests. But it is the only scale we have to gauge intelligence. In the same sense that if I don’t have a measuring tape to tell you how long a stick is, I can give you a rough idea through many hand-widths long it is.

I don’t know about others, but I refer to intelligence as the broad dictionary definition of someones ability to learn, that pattern recognition and problem solving. Learning in itself is a skill, which is why there are courses in post secondary that are specifically focused on teaching you how to study and learn efficiently. If what you’re hung up on is whether or not intelligence can be increased through education or even at all through your life then I say with pretty good certainty, based on what we know so far, intelligence is absolutely something that requires work through your life to increase.

You need exposure to data, concepts, ideas, and even other people’s ways of thinking to reach your full potential. I’ll leave you with a scientific journal specifically analyzing the genetic and environmental factors (including education) that affect cognitive ability.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289621000635

Very possible. I just couldn’t see myself purposely saying something I didn’t think was true and then doubling up with calling the other person dumb over it. I don’t agree with almost anything she does though so that checks out.

It literally says memorizing data isn’t what makes someone intelligent. Second guessing yourself because of factual feedback you’ve received and not being falsely confident in everything you think is what makes someone intelligent.

Haven’t read the stat in a while but it’s something like an average increase of 5 IQ points for every year of school you attend. That increase isn’t necessarily because of the data you’ve retained, it’s from being tested on it and adjusting how you approach new concepts based on that feedback.

Which part is ambiguous to you though?

I may have missed it but I’ve only seen you and 1 other comment say I mix up the terms, if you can point out where I’m mixing them up then maybe I can correct or clarify myself. I am fully aware of the difference between knowledge and intelligence.

Tools and info yes, but the feedback is what I’m saying teaches people to adjust their confidence levels closer to their actual understanding of a subject.

Like if you wrote tests but never got graded or told what you got wrong, your confidence in your ability likely wouldn’t match your understanding of what you were tested on. Someone who wrote tests and were shown what they got wrong has a better understanding of how well they know something. I think that constant feedback is important and not something many people consider as a takeaway from being educated.

And yes, “stupid” people don’t have the ability to connect all the dots

What about lizard and spock?

Knowledge is remembering facts, intelligence is pattern recognition and problem solving. Where did I mix the two?

I’m not saying people without formal education don’t have the capacity for intelligence, I’m saying education increases intelligence through reevaluating your own thoughts.

From what I recall, it’s generally accepted that your potential for intelligence is based primarily on your genetic luck and environmental factors. Your genetic potential being how well your biological processes work, the hardware you’re given, and then environmental factors like injury, nutrition, and education that determine how much of your potential you reach or are hindered from.

If there were 2 clones, one born to a rich family with high IQ parents that understand how to nurture intelligence and one born to 2 mentally challenged parents who not only lack the ability to take care of their kid properly but require their kid to take on a caregiver role as a child. 99% of the time, one of them would reach their full potential while the other wouldn’t.

And it’s difficult if not impossible to be more intelligent with a closed mind no?

How about we meet in the middle and say “learning the concept that you might be wrong will help your intelligence”?

My mother who “allegedly” graduated high school has more confidence than anyone I know and will say things like “you can’t divide a small number by a bigger number” or “temperatures don’t have decimals, only full numbers”. Then as you stare at her blankly trying to figure out if she’s joking or not, she’ll tell you you’re clearly not very smart if you don’t know that

You ever want some milk so you buy chocolate milk and try to separate out the chocolate?

Be excellent to each other and party on dudes!

Shhh…I made this elaborate fake name because I didn’t want everyone to know I’m 8 time MTV Movie & TV Awards nominee and 4 time winner Keanu Reeves

You couldn’t be thanked enough for your work

I imagine your job is as draining as it is fulfilling

People with low empathy don’t see people as companions, but more as tools to benefit themselves. So they don’t really care as long as they have enough money and pawns to take care of themselves.