On 10/19/2018 12:09 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
The same way they judge anyone's intelligence, by their behavior.
Don't you give tests to your students? Do you never take tests?
I never judge the intelligence from the result of test. I can judge
competence, but that is not intelligence, which is more a form of
courage to be able to admit her been shown wrong when that is the
case. Intelligence is needed to develop competence, but competence
very often transform someone into an idiot incapable to evolve. I
think stupidity is more or less "programmed by evolution”, as with
this theory kids are intelligent, and adulthood is stupidity, as
living requires some stupidity perhaps. Even lies have roles (already
in arithmetic). Intelligence is a state of mind. Stupidity is mainly
an insult. Useful when people lack arguments, as we can see in so many
discussion (alas).
And when people lack answer's they evade the question by digressions
into some other topics. You think jumping spiders are conscious, based
on their behavior. But when I ask whether you can judge your student's
inetlligence, you throw up a fog of musings about stupidity and
evolution. If intelligence is needed to develop competence, which can
be measured by behavoir, then the inability to develop competence is a
measure of intelligence.
Yes or no, can you judge someone's intelligence by their behavior.
Brent
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