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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.
I think there's something to what you say - that a person's intelligence is generally stable and will remain similar throughout life. But there is also an element of nurture in it, too. To take an extreme example, if two kids with the same genome are raised in starkly different environments, one who goes to good schools may end up with a very high IQ and one who the parents keep locked in a dark basement will have a low one. So perhaps the best way to think of intelligence is as 'learning potential' or some such.
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