Down with Intelligence!!
And that sort of thing!!(Father Ted, 1990’s)
Do you know when you get something in your head and it's just there, lurking, peeking out now and again, but never really going away!!! Well since the start of this current module I've been like that, and the mind worm is the language we use!! I've a gripe with it, well not all of it, it's great for explaining objects, theories, it's amazing in songs, but put it under pressure and it fails.It kinda started with this module, we were investigating IQ and Intelligence testing, so we do a series of tests, a score is produced, and from that you are intelligent or not so intelligent, but it struck me, is that really what's being measured? and if it's not, why call it intelligence. For instance, I know an animal who has been domesticated with four legs, two ears a button nose, paws a tail. Ok I'm describing a Dog but I'm also describing a Cat or a hamster or Rabbit, so it's could be either of these examples but I wouldn't call them all dogs for ease, but that's what seems to happen with intelligence tests, so society can easily put a number beside your name, and I think more frequently or not it isn't for the participants benefit. I think every single human has great intelligence, imagine you were stranded on an alien planet, you couldn't quite grasp your surroundings and couldn't understand the noises coming from the aliens, how long would it take you to start mobilising and start to understand the alien language? 6, 7, 8 years, yet every child born into this world, adapts to its environment and has a grasp of the language enough to communicate within 3 to 4 years, how amazing is that? Jump on a few years we start testing these peoples intelligence and give a score which has ramifications throughout their life. Are we even testing intelligence? We test how much they have learned to a specific point in their life, without taking into account their environment to that said point. We test their ability to memorise and recover data but we know not everyone has the same mind filing system. We test so many things, so why clump it all together as intelligence? Does this in fact show our lack of intelligence and imagination or is a cat actually a dog! Maybes and maybe it isn't language I have my gripe with at all, maybe its us as a society.
I could go on and on about this, I have no problem with testing, just let's accept every living thing displays intelligence rest the “I” word there, and let's start being precise about what tests are measuring
In other news I finished red dead redemption 2 . Yeeeeehaaaa
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