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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Yeah... I was just reading the link to the wiki page about multiple intelligences, and I knew I had some wrong assumptions in my prior post.
Defining intelligence is tricky, and I'm not claiming to know the best definition.
I think it's exactly the point that street smarts is an expression of intelligence. The scenario I was trying to set up was that it's the same person, with the same intelligence, either way. They may have stayed in school or dropped out, but that doesn't change whether or not they're smart. It only changes what their smarts will be focused on.
The funny thing is that IQ tests do that better than any other form of test that I've seen. There was a show about child geniuses in the UK a while ago that followed kids who had stupidly high IQs from a very young age. Two children of the same age both who had IQ's like 170ish at the age of ~12 one was studying undergraduate courses and the other wasn't even top of his class in a standard comprehensive school.
The rejection of IQ tests as a measure of intelligence is all well and good if you replace it with something better but that doesn't ever really happen. It also shows that if you pick any walk of life a higher IQ from traditional methods tends to lead to better chances even when it comes to kids making a living off the streets. People very much confuse knowledge for intelligence and whilst there is a link between them one doesn't imply the other.
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