[extropy-chat] morons in office

[Kevin Freels]

Intelligence is subjective. Also, testing ability can vary with
environmental conditions and with changes in mental states such as anger,
anxiety and emotional stress. Also, I never understood how you could
quantify such a thing with a number when people have such a hard time
agreeing on what intelligence is to begin with.
Most can;t even agree on whether or not dolphins and chimpanzees are
intelligent.

So I pose this question: What is intelligence?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] morons in office


> Closer to the truth: especially at high levels, your
> IQ primarily measures your skill at taking IQ tests.
> (And if the tests aren't calibrated to accurately
> measure high IQ, then anything above 130 or maybe
> above 145 is statistically the same/within the margin
> of error as most other scores within that range, no?)
>
> --- Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think I read somewhere that your IQ drops 1 point
> > every time you tell
> > someone else :)
> >
> > BAL
> >
> > >From: "Henrique Moraes Machado"
> > <hemm at openlink.com.br>
> > >To: "ExI chat list"
> > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] morons in office
> > >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:41:43 -0300
> > >
> > >I am 147 and my leadership ability tends to zero. I
> > think leadership
> > >ability has no relation at all with IQ levels. Off
> > course too low an IQ
> > >would render one useless for even being leaded.
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Brian Lee" <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com>
> > >To: <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:55 PM
> > >Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] morons in office
> > >
> > >
> > >| Were they using a standard deviation of 10 or 15?
> > For a standard
> > >deviation
> > >| of 10, Gore is near genius with a 135.
> > >|
> > >| I also think that IQ does not directly correlate
> > to leadership ability.
> > >I've
> > >| some super geniuses who were useless and some
> > average (110) who could run
> > >an
> > >
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