What classifies a person as intelligent?
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Someone with lots of intelligence is the ability to learn quickly and see abstract concept patterns.\n\nSomeone with lots of wisdom knows what the heck to do with it.\n\nIn education, we measure intelligence by volume of information a person has already learned (e.g. vocabulary), memory skills (short and long term), pattern perception (verbal, visual, numerical, etc.), and problem solving (not just knowing a way to solve something, but figuring out ways to do it from scratch).\n\nIn real life, wisdom is much more important. A slower learner who is really good at using what he/she does know, effectively and positively to benefit him/herself and the community, is much more highly valued than someone who has learned lots of information and can problem-solve quickly, but doesn't make the world a better place with it.\n\nThe thing is, schools are to teach us the stuff we need so that as we build experience, we can do more with our lives.\n\nParents (acting as models for how to do it) and life experience are what give us wisdom.
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Intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. \n\nArtificial intelligence (abbreviated AI, also some times called Synthetic Intelligence ) is defined as intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity. Such a system is generally assumed to be a computer.
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A smart person is someone who knows what they want. They are articulate, witty, and fast on their mental 'feet'. They create goals and focus on them to achieve. They put everything in prespective, the more you leave out the higher the risk. A person who is smart has a general knowledge of mankinds history. It is pertinent to brush up on our past because we can learn many things and even use them to make our own lifes easier.\n\nYou do not have to be great in math or be able to solve a rubix cube in under 5 minutes to be smart. A smart person knows they are smart.\n\nI think the most important factor when considering someones intelligence is their ability to make good decisions. This is prehaps the most valuable skill one can learn. We make decisions in everything we do, and while we practice making decision so much, it is still one of the hardest things to do. To make a right decision you must consider every possible outcome and decide what is the best plan of action before acting on it. Learn to do this well and you will have a distinct advantage over others in life.\n\n'Smartness' is derived from learning, a big factor in being smart is to learn from your mistakes. I'm talking about making a conscious effort to analyze your actions and decide what you did wrong(also what you did right) AND what you could have done differntly. Personally, I do this at night when I'm laying down for bed, I think about my day and analyze it.(this also helps me sleep!)\n\nThe most limiting factor in intelligence is emotions. Which brings up emotional intelligence...but I wont get into that, this post is already too long!
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IQ is only a measure of the capacity to solve problems. Knowledge is how much one knows.  IQ can be coupled with Knowledge to show understanding.  Kids do not have the knowledge that their teachers do.
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This is a hard question to answer because there are different forms of intelligence.  There are people who are book smart, people who are good with electronics, philosophical people etc.  \n\nHowever, I think people who can form an opinion based on a reasonable thought process and can still honestly consider other points of view (even if they still don't change their own opinion) are pretty intelligent.  Closed minds are small minds but if you open your mind it is free to grow as large as it wants to.
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It is actually both. I also believe it is how well you grasp and see things.  It is basically how you think and learn.  The only part of the test that would prolly be taught(what you know) is the math stuff. You can find more detail here.\n\nAn intelligence quotient or IQ is a number derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. An IQ test does not measure intelligence the way a ruler measures height (absolutely), but rather the way a race measures speed (relatively); IQ is described as a "quotient" because, originally, it represented the ratio between a person's "mental age" and actual chronological age.\n\nFor people living in the prevailing conditions of the developed world, IQ is highly heritable, and by adulthood the influence of family environment on IQ is undetectable. IQ test scores are correlated with measures of brain structure and function, as well as performance on simple tasks that anyone can complete within a few seconds.\n\nIQ is correlated with academic success, job performance, socioeconomic advancement, and "social pathologies". It is taken by psychologists to be an excellent proxy for intelligence, and possibly the best measurable definition of intellectual ability, but generally not taken to represent intelligence perfectly. Recent work has demonstrated links between IQ and health, longevity, and functional literacy.
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Intelligence is defined by the ability to learn and reason. Artificial inteligence is basically a computer that can learn and reason without further input from a user. Typically, computers simply calculate and must be programmed to know how to calculate.
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Someone who understand things perfectly and take things seriously. Someone who listens and knows about life. Someone who is wise and intelligent.
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I understand the question....\n\nCommon sense is inversely proportional to intellegence.\n\nThe more brilliant and specialzed a person is... the more likely they will specialize and become CLUELESS in other area.  \n\nI once knew a BRILLIANT woman... who did not know that the "DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL INDICATOR" she read about in her drivers handbook... was the "BLINKER".\n\nGO figure.
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Intelligence is native to the individual.  Generally we consider intelligence as something that remains constant and knowledge as that which we increase.
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Intelligence is a complex topic.  Probably the easiest and simplest way to describe it is to say that intelligence is an individual's capacity to learn.  Theoretically, the higher the level of intelligence, the greater the capacity to learn and the more complicated material the individual can learn.  For example, the higher the intelligence the better an individual can learn to do math, read, etc.  Old psychology textbooks used to have a table that matched IQ levels to professions and the highest level IQ usually indicated someone who had the abiity to be a doctor, etc.  \n\nHowever, there is not always a match between measured intelligence and depth and quantity of learning.  \n\nMany theories consider intelligence to be different from creativity, emotion, critical thinking skills, and so on, but in recent years there has been much more emphasis and research on different types or aspects of intelligence - for example, emotional intelligence, multiple intelligences, common sense intelligence, etc.  \n\nI am merely scratching the surface in this answer.  I haven't even mentioned the many different learning theories!!  \n\nReview some of the links I've included and do some further research on some of the terms you see, and the immensity and complexity of the issue will be apparent.\n\nPersonally, I have always been very interested in multiple intelligences theory and used it extensively in my teaching.\n\nI hope this in some way addresses your question.  Enjoy the reading!
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A person who is very unsmart in most areas but is a genius in 1 narrow area.  "idiot savant"  translates as knowing idiot.
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it basically means "intelligent"...
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A shy or reserved person.  One who does not like crowds, and usually is slow to make friends.  In other words, a smart person!
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How can one define anything, not to mention, what makes us more of an intelligence and not a computer? The real question is, how would you define an intelligent computer (if there is even a difference)?
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I think the definition of intelligence you are looking for is:\n# The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.\n# The faculty of thought and reason.\n# Superior powers of mind.\n\nThe simplist way to do this is to read, study, and remember things.\n\nThe reading the more you read the more information you will take in.  The more you read the better you will get at it and the fast you will read too.\n\nStudy the things you want to get more intelligent on.  If it's world affairs then study what's happening in the world, the politics, the history, and read the paper.\n\nRemembering things for some can be the hardest part.  If you have trouble remembering things then there are books and courses on remembering things.  Learn and practice the techniques they teach.\n\nThe more you know, the more knowledge you have to apply to a situation.\n\nThe mind is like a musscle, the more you use it the stronger it will get.\n\nA couple things of note:\n"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle\n\nIf you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in.\n\nThe idea is that not everything you will learn is the truth and not everyone is right.  With learning a lot one needs to also lean how to distinguish truth and garbage in what is learned.
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Depends on the person.  I haven't heard any scientific proves which is smarter than the other.