it is wrong to get irritated with stupid people just because you are smart | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70732847 United States 05/19/2019 02:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | IQ is suppose to measure how the brain can process an abstract idea. And it's of my opinion, that it's more than just the brain, it's the entire nervous system of the body that contributes to this. The whole living expression is required for intelligence to shine through. The brain is merely the central processing unit. The higher the IQ, the better the ability of the individual has to extrapolate information from abstract concepts, or vise versa. Abstract thought allows one to evaluate complex problems more effectively. The notion that IQ is based on learned "knowledge" is a bit of a misnomer. The base IQ is something we are born with. This is pretty much fixed and can not be changed, at least not as of yet anyways. It's not to say there won't be genomic therapies developed in the near future to unlock the DNA code that could make an individual smarter. Learned knowledge is something we accumulate throughout our life time. The higher the IQ, the easier it becomes to organize and formulate that knowledge in an abstract manner that can benefit us in life. People that have the ability to retain a lot of information and regurgitate that information on-demand are often misrepresented as higher IQ. A high IQ individual can have less information and extrapolate deep, often compelling abstract concepts. Higher IQ often doesn't require much, if any, mentoring to learn new complex concepts and ideas. Novelty is attractive to these people. A lower IQ individual can have volumes of information but not be able to pull much out of it other than what they have been conditioned to view as possible. Lower IQ often requires extensive mentoring and scholarly indoctrination. Very few novel innovations arise from such individuals, although they are often very stable and successful in life. In fact, novelty to these folks is a bit scary, they often reject ideas that fall outside of their learned ideology. The higher the IQ, the more likely one will contemplate themselves in an abstract manner thereby expanding their horizons of what is possible. |