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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

How do you measure actually intelligent?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

You don't measure it. You compare it to your own intelligence and see if it matches.

[-] mke_geek@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It's like art, you know it when you see it.

[-] badelf@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Excellent question. For me, it has a lot to do with their sense of humor, general outlook, and their problem solving. ymmv

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

When they say it. If somebody says "I'm very smart" or "I'm very intelligent", you know the answer.

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Have you heard about IQ Test.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

The flawed metric racists use to claim they are somehow superior?

There is a reason why it isn't standard practice and only covers certain topics. It can measure some general knowledge, but is in no way indictment to the actual intelligence of a person.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes I know the origins of IQ Tests and how it was used for justifying eugenics in USA and how Hitler got inspired by it. But I ment it as a joke to the original comment asking how to measure intelligence. And anyway who believes in a number on piece of paper we all only believe in how much upvotes we can get on Lemmy.

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

No that's dumb

[-] ondoyant@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

somebody talking about their IQ would be a major red flag for me lol

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is it OK if they mention that their IQ is less than 0 Kelvin.

[-] ondoyant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

some healthy self-deprecation is definitely nice, but the eldritch implications of somebody representing their intelligence as convertible to a temperature value transgressing thermodynamic law intrigue me more.

[-] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Have YOU been on the mensa forums?

[-] badelf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm theoretically Mensa qualified but when I met some I turned away. My sense of what's fun and creative did not align. At all.

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