> On 19 Oct 2018, at 23:50, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
OK. But judging an inability is difficult. For my civil service, I worked with people labeled as highly mentally disabled, but by using computer (which was new at that time), I was able to discern an ability to develop competence on many of them. Not all, but the experience showed that a new technology was able to help in that positive discernment. > > Yes or no, can you judge someone's intelligence by their behavior. I can appreciate their intelligence, but that is not saying much, as my criteria makes a pebble intelligent, even in a trivial way. You be stupid you need a lot of neurons, to build prejudices and become unable to change them. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
