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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
"Intelligence" is a measure of the capability to process a given set of facts........quickly.........and determining the correct answer from the facts provided.
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And those facts are relative to the environment in which a person functions, and from whence his frame of reference is drawn.
"Civilized" intelligence is useless in, say, the Khalihari desert. The Bushmen would consider us hopelessly retarded because we cannot do simple things like interpret the natural signs around us, or determine, from a set of footprints in the sand, the direction a person is traveling, and the physical condition he is in.
There is simply no universal standard of intellgence, and "intelligence tests" will always be from the environmental frame of reference of their creators -- who are apparently too dumb to recognize that limiting fact.
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