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16419 | No one has yet devised a rationality test [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: The financial sector has been clamouring for a rationality test for years. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2013.10.29) | |
A reaction: Many aspects of intelligence tests do actually pick out what I would call rationality (which includes 'rational intuition', a new favourite of mine). But they are mixed in with rather mechanical geeky sort of tests. |
16417 | About a third of variation in human intelligence is environmental [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: Possibly a third of the variation in our intelligence is down to the environment in which we grew up - nutrition and education, for example. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2013.10.29) | |
A reaction: This presumably leaves the other two-thirds to derive from genetics. I am a big believer in environment. Swapping babies between extremes of cultural environment would hugely affect intelligence, say I. |
16418 | People can be highly intelligent, yet very stupid [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: You really can be highly intelligent, and at the same time very stupid. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2013.10.29) | |
A reaction: This is closely related to my observation (from a lifetime of study) that a talent for philosophy has a very limited correlation with standard notions of high intelligence. What matters is how conscious reasoning and intuition relate. Greek 'phronesis'. |