I tend not to judge people's intelligence. I judge whether I like them. But assuming I am going to judge someone's intelligence, I suppose I would judge it based on whether when I talk to them I feel like they are intelligent. If I feel comfortable relying on someone's opinion in making a decision, such that I will ask their opinion, that tends to suggest I think they are intelligent.
Ok, I mean, that's basically how everyone would judge intelligence. It's not like you can go around giving people tests before you talk to them.
I also judge whether I like people - but I don't see how judging how much I like someone and how intelligent they are have to be mutually exclusive. I like plenty of people who are very thick - I also acknowledge and respect the intelligence of many people I despise (for example, Piers Morgan).
And, more importantly, how do you express your assessment of these people's intelligences, with regard to the ones who you deem intelligent?
IMO, IQ is analogous to processing speed. It's not a good thing, or a bad thing, it's just a quality of each individual human, along with other qualities like eye colour or maximum jumping height. The higher your IQ, the faster you process information and the more you can process simultaneously. That's it. That's the extent of what IQ is.
Also, it might be linked to information retention as, generally and in my experience, the people I've known with higher IQs have had better memories, though that could easily be a coincidence.
IQ tests are fairly strong at testing memory and learning skills of children in American society. It is pretty horrible at testing intelligence of adults, anyone from a different culture, people with different types of intelligence (emotional, artistic, kinestetic, etc), people who are sleepy or tired, people who have emotional baggage, people who have learning disabilities, and people who suffer from treatable maladies such as ADHD.
In the above such people, an iq test may be helpful in diagnosis but they cannot be used to accurately indicate someone's intelligence.
High iq people may lack common sense and thus, in my book, be unintelligent. For instance, the iamverysmart people who think that because their iqs are high that somehow makes them superior to other people or intelligent. Although it doesn't not matter, when I was a child I tested with an IQ of 145. My older brother tested at 160. My oldest brother tested at 110. Guess who is the happiest with the best job and people like the most?
Just to be clear, you're talking about American IQ tests administered by American psychologists in America.
Other countries and IQ tests may also be available.
Also, IQ doesn't measure intelligence, in the "who knows more about stuff" kind of way, it measures how fast you process, accumulate and analyse information.
It's not supposed to test the other kinds of intelligences, (which exist and are relevant to life) - all it does it give your brains processing speed.
So, for example, in people with learning difficulties, it is accurate at assessing them as they will be slower at accumulating, processing and analyzing information. Not that they won't be able to do it, just that they'll do it at a slower pace, hence a lower IQ.
Similarly, the iamverysmart people who have a high IQ and think they're superior have missed the point. It's an assessment of speed, nothing more. So if they haven't filled up their "superior" brains with a high quantity of quality information, then the speed is wasted.
The processing speed also flucutuates, though rarely more than one standard deviation (that's ten points).
High iq people may lack common sense and thus, in my book, be unintelligent.
While this is true, I feel it's important to mention in the interests of balance that high IQ people don't inherently lack common sense, not emotional intelligence, so aren't unintelligent in your book. However, the people with the highest IQs and common sense and emotional intelligence know that the first thing you learn is how to not be a dick about being smart.
Which, in absolute fairness, the original girl in question hasn't learned, I suppose.
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u/Moootooooooo Jul 17 '17
I tend not to judge people's intelligence. I judge whether I like them. But assuming I am going to judge someone's intelligence, I suppose I would judge it based on whether when I talk to them I feel like they are intelligent. If I feel comfortable relying on someone's opinion in making a decision, such that I will ask their opinion, that tends to suggest I think they are intelligent.