I'm being stupid enough to argue with someone who claims a positive correlation between intelligence and all sorts of theoretical "good" things, like longevity and not doing criminal things and wealth and health and ...
One problem with trying to measure intelligence is that there are many kinds of intelligence -- many kinds of smarts.
One kind of smarts is when someone leaves a chair in the middle of the kitchen and you stub your toe and say, quite calmly, "My goodness, that smarts."
Another kind of smarts is when you decide you're going to avoid walking too close to chairs from now on.
Yet another kind of smarts is when you start planning a campaign to outlaw chairs.
And then there is the smarts that just decides to get rid of chairs in your own home and start sitting on the floor like certain Asian traditions have it.
Another kind of smarts redesigns the chair with a circular base and a single supporting leg in the middle where you would have to try pretty hard to stub your toe.
And then there is the smarts that finds out who left the chair there and fines or sues that person for endangerment.
And then there is the kind of smarts that just grabs the chair and sits down and rubs the toe until the circulation returns, then pushes the chair back under the table, out of the way.
I know which smarts I would prefer to exercise, if I am fully in control of myself.
But it takes all these kinds of smarts to make up a world. Yeah, I suppose even the smarts to sue and/or outlaw chairs.
Which of these smarts are tested on IQ tests?
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