by Rick Baker
On Mar 26, 2013
Thought Tweet #702 Who decides Intelligence? We all decide Intelligence!
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
We are sentient creatures. We are thinking creatures. We are curious and we like to measure and compare. We possess special neurons that help us understand other human beings. As we experience other people, we sense and gauge the signals of their intelligence [or lack of it], whether it is IQ-type or EQ-type or some other type of intelligence.
Obviously, we are subjective as we observe and measure other people. We do not employ ‘exact science’. We tend to stereotype. We tend to downplay situations. We tend to have attribution bias, etc.
Who decides intelligence?
We all do and we do it every day.
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