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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by bradknowles on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:23AM (#14398783)
The chemical composition of your brain may be nearly indistinguishable from mine, but the output of mine may be radically different than yours.

There are all sorts of "intelligence" that I just don't have. I don't get social cues. They just don't register for me. There is a "social intelligence" that I don't have. But I have seen people who clearly do.

Likewise, there are things that I find to be quite natural for me, and other people look at me like I'm crazy and they don't comprehend how I can do those things.

Whether you call it "intelligence" or some other word, I think the result is the same.

The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation (http://jocrf.org/aptitudes) uses the term "aptitudes":

> Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things easily and quickly. They have little to do with knowledge or culture, or education, or even interests. They have to do with heredity. Musical talent and artistic talent are examples of such aptitudes.

> Some people can paint beautifully but cannot carry a tune. Others are good at talking to people but slow at paperwork. Still others can easily repair a car but find writing difficult.

Is that a better term than "intelligence" for what you had in mind?

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by Moru on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:49AM (#14399080)
My job exists only because a certain type of job has a lot more than average of people that can't write much. Mostly because of dyslexia or similar problems. My job is to completely remove the need for them to waste time on the writing part and let them do their job instead.
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