Members intelligence

[one eyed chicklet]

No...you're stupid because you live on the wrong side of the Pennines. 😊*

I think it shows because I literally just had to google what the Pennines was... 😂

 

[Skanky Vamp]

a current event book that becomes pointless

So then you are saying that knowledge is pointless? Reading a current event book helps to broaden and expand your knowledge of situations. Even if the "current events" are no longer applicable to a modern situation the knowledge and insight gained from reading the book can prove to be beneficial as your circumnavigate similar situations. Ergo the whole "if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it" mantra.

 

[November]

With a author with a PhD, I can read the book 20 years or 100 years after it was first published. With current event books, they are a dead letter after a few years.

You could say the same about science books - they are outdated quicker than anything. Even if they are written by someone with a PhD.

Where do you place the value of real world skills or alternative learning in the scheme of smartness?

I think Buffy is the sort of show that can appeal to homeschool kids as much as it does mainstream, and the diversity in education and life skills is one of the things that keeps me interested in the forum. @nightshade has taught me how to boil an egg to perfection. Before her I just never soft boiled them. I value that skill, even without her higher education.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

@nightshade has taught me how to boil an egg to perfection. Before her I just never boiled them. I value that skill, even without her higher education.

Yes, but imagine the intrinsic value from it if DNS had in fact gotten a degree, or even a doctorate. You could say you learned how to boil an egg from a doctor. Imagine what great stories you could tell. Now you can only say you learnt to boil an egg from a BB member. You should feel cheated.

 

[November]

Yes, but imagine the intrinsic value from it if DNS had in fact gotten a degree, or even a doctorate. You could say you learned how to boil an egg from a doctor. Imagine what great stories you could tell. Now you can only say you learnt to boil an egg from a BB member. You should feel cheated.

According to my ex- psychodynamic psychotherapist , I am the "greatest minimiser". So even if Nightshade was a doctor who taught me to boil an egg, I'd still refer to her as a random I met on the internet.

 

[AnthonyCordova]

Do we even really know what we are talking about when we use a word like intelligence? What are we measuring exactly and how do we measure it? And how are we to measure cognitive aptitude apart from various social/cultural conditionings, social priveliging, institutionalized prejudices, class consciousness, gender bias and the like? I don't find it productive to speak of intelligence as objectively measurable. I don't think intelligence is two dimensional either. Different people have different cognitive gifts, and they often aren't the types of things that can be measured against one another.

 

[TriBel]

Even with the wish to become more educated, like reading nonfiction books or reading books that are the cannon books of any university English Department.

Where and how does this relate to becoming more educated? My youngest only reads non-fiction - he doesn't have a qualification of any description. Have you seen the "canon" in an English Lit department? I've taught Raymond Chandler, Henning Mankell and Alan Moore's From Hell on Undergraduate courses.

I never applied for sixth form. Instead I completed a btec diploma which is an a level equivalent, just all course work and no exams. I didn't take this route because I felt I wasn't smart enough pass a levels. I took this route because I was simply tired of exams. It was a decision based on preference, not intelligence.

Non-standard qualifications such as BTEC accrue UCAS points and will get you on to certain courses in some UK universities. Universities are aware of the difficulty exams pose for some students and some courses have done away with them altogether or use seen papers etc. If it helps, I think the UK's going to see a backlash against HE.

So yes, I have a bias for someone with a PhD.

One of the most influential theorists I know is Walter Benjamin. He's of importance across literature, film studies, art, architecture, urban studies, history, heritage studies, marketing...the list goes on. His PhD was thrown out for being unreadable! In addition, the length of a book has absolutely no bearing on its worth. Some people make their name on the strength of a single essay or a very slim book.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

the length of a book has absolutely no bearing on its worth. Some people make their name on the strength of a single essay or a very slim book.

To paraphrase... Size doesn't matter.

 

[November]

To paraphrase... Size doesn't matter.

Unless it's the size of your bank account.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Unless it's the size of your bank account.

If you were intelligent you'd have more than one. (I tried to segue back to topic)

 

[Mrs Gordo]

I am incredibly intelligent. Some people I know say they have never met someone as intelligent as me. (read in Trump voice) 😉 😁

 

[nightshade]

I thought level of intelligence was measured in whether you can put IKEA flat packed furniture together?

 

[Name the Stars]

I'm trying for a Juris doctorate right now! That would give me a funny title...a doctor of law..

 

[November]

I thought level of intelligence was measured in whether you can put IKEA flat packed furniture together?

Oh I am a PRO at that! It's like a giant puzzle, but more rewarding. In fact, I want to build another house so I can get different furniture. No point having all these smarts if I don't aspire to milk them for all their worth!

 

[Skanky Vamp]

I have never bought, let alone assembled, a piece of IKEA anything. I feel worthless and dumb.

 

[nightshade]

I have never bought, let alone assembled, a piece of IKEA anything. I feel worthless and dumb.

It's ok, I'm sure there will be another word or phrase that you need to teach @Taake and I soon

 

[Skanky Vamp]

It's ok, I'm sure there will be another word or phrase that you need to teach @Taake and I soon

I don't speak to her anymore. She's dead to me. She locked me in the dungeon and didn't even torture me. She puts the dung in dungeon. I question her intelligence for doing so.

 

[white avenger]

I think that intelligence must be relative to one's age. When I was a young man, my parents thought that I was a near genius. Now that I'm old, my children think that I must be dumb as dirt.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Are we above the norms of intelligence because we are fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or are we below the norms of intelligence because we are fans of Buffy.

I'm above. @Spanky is below. Like, waaaaay below.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

@Spanky is below. Like, waaaaay below.