Re: Who likes Bush ?

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:18:42 -0800, Don Homuth <dhomuth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:05:24 -0800, Mark Ferguson
><wa****ngton_resident@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:00:07 -0800, Don Homuth <dhomuth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>wrote:
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>>>There are many studies that discuss Intelligence of several forms.
>>>And in fact, most individuals have varying degrees of Intelligence,
>>>which is part of the reason why there are individual differences in
>>>capabilities.
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>>Well personally I define intelligence as the ability to learn
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>But learn what?

Why does the ability to learn have to be specific?

>> and conversely stupidity as the inability to learn.
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>Again, learn what?

You mean unable to learn.  Pretty self explanitory IMHO.

>>  This removes all
>>other considerations as to environment, education, etc....
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>Save for what it is that a person is intelligent about -- which is a
>variable you are not considering.

That is your defining charactoristic of intelligence and not mine.

>Verbal ability is one and Only one indicator of Intelligence.  There
>are others.  And not all those with high verbal intelligence are
>capable of equal skill with others.

Thse would be your preconceptions and not mine.  The ability to learn
can be applied to anything and should not be exclusively something
that one person considers of value.

My spelling sucks, my puncuations sucks yet I can write programming.
Not raw code but low level code for the net in various languages.
Because my spelling sucks does not mean my vocabulary sucks.  I may
not know how to spell what I am saying when I am speaking but I damn
sure know what I am saying.

The ability to learn is what I base intelligence on and not what
somebody has learned.  Lerning by wrote or repitition means very
little.  It also comes down use of knowledge I guess.


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