Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
by daniel-cussen on Sunday May 15, 2022 @12:41AM
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Would you pay someone "with 10 hertz" to demonstrate his cleverness, or at least what he sees as cleverness?
All my money. I can only see it in the reflections off eyeballs. Not even in the mirror. It's a spectator of spectator sport.
Intelligence is ability to build mental models that predict reality. If you see a lightning strike, build a correct mental model of it and use it to create electricity to power a light bulb - that's intelligence. But cracking a clever joke about the lightning strike that rhymes with something doesn't need intelligence - that's a purely mechanical skill.
Intuition is a very different quality. If intelligence lets you build a somewhat accurate map of reality, intuition is a bird's eye view of that reality.