====== Intelligence ======

>Numerous definitions of and hypotheses about intelligence have been proposed since before the twentieth century,__ with no consensus reached by scholars."  __
>\\ Source [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence|wikipedia]]

Despite the lack of an agreed definition, tests of IQ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient|(Intelligence Quotients)]] are still routinely used to grade students, job-applicants and patients.

Links between IQ test scores and actual 'intelligence' (however it's defined) are sketchy at best.

Further reading;  [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence:_Knowns_and_Unknowns|Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns]] //Board of Scientific Affairs// report, 1995.

Quote from Professor //Stanley M. Garn// (university of Michigan)

> "If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." [[https://allauthor.com/quotes/118083/|source]]

Quote from Nobel prizewinner professor //Peter Medawar//

>I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him //unintelligent//. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again."

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