Intelligence Is Guessing Correctly

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://williamcalvin.com/1990s/1999intelligence-chapter.htm

FACED WITH NOVELTY AND AMBIGUITY THE SMARTIES GUESS RIGHT.

 

[fair_warning]

:shrug:
well of course.

 

[about_average]

Guessing often plays an important role, but if it were a function of pure guesswork there would have been an evolution towards better luck rather than an evolution towards higher intelligence.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

:shrug:
well of course.

Intelligence tests arent normed from good guessers, theyre normed from good test takers.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Guessing often plays an important role, but if it were a function of pure guesswork there would have been an evolution towards better luck rather than an evolution towards higher intelligence.

And LUCK is the correct answer; well, a chunk of it. I suspect the real answer is finer pattern recognition skills.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Guessing often plays an important role, but if it were a function of pure guesswork there would have been an evolution towards better luck rather than an evolution towards higher intelligence.

If it were possible to evolve "towards better luck," which it isn't; no more than it is possible to evolve toward paranormal/psychic abilities, because they do not exist and are not physically possible.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If it were possible to evolve "towards better luck," which it isn't; no more than it is possible to evolve toward paranormal/psychic abilities, because they do not exist and are not physically possible.

But you dont know that, and besides, lawyers invent all kinds of artifical stuff they treat as real.

 

[blobfish]

If it were possible to evolve "towards better luck," which it isn't; no more than it is possible to evolve toward paranormal/psychic abilities, because they do not exist and are not physically possible.

Psychic abilities are not impossible.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Psychic abilities are not impossible.

OREO has it all figgered out.

 

[blobfish]

OREO has it all figgered out.

He thinks he has everything figured out.

 

[CHNOPS]

Are you guys the smart ones or the lucky ones?

 

[about_average]

If it were possible to evolve "towards better luck," which it isn't; no more than it is possible to evolve toward paranormal/psychic abilities, because they do not exist and are not physically possible.

Well, I would never claim to know all that is possible and not possible in the universe, or even for man. I'll let others lay claim to that knowledge. Or guesses.

 

[about_average]

Are you guys the smart ones or the lucky ones?

I missed out on both.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Well, I would never claim to know all that is possible and not possible in the universe, or even for man. I'll let others lay claim to that knowledge. Or guesses.

A law degree qualifies a person to do anything you can imagine, and explains why every board and commission and committee is packed tighter than a faggots ass with lawyers.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Psychic abilities are not impossible.

I wish I could believe that, I've spent years looking for a verifiable instance. So did James Randi; nobody ever claimed his prize.

 

[KingOrfeo]

But you dont know that, and besides, lawyers invent all kinds of artifical stuff they treat as real.

No lawyer of my acquaintance, ever, would confuse the "reality" of a legal concept with the purported reality of a physical phenomenon.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No lawyer of my acquaintance, ever, would confuse the "reality" of a legal concept with the purported reality of a physical phenomenon.

See DERSHOWITZ, Alan

 

[KingOrfeo]

Well, I would never claim to know all that is possible and not possible in the universe, or even for man. I'll let others lay claim to that knowledge. Or guesses.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In the absence of such, the nonexistence of paranormal abilities is the reasonable default position.

 

[KingOrfeo]

See DERSHOWITZ, Alan

What about him?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I wish I could believe that, I've spent years looking for a verifiable instance. So did James Randi; nobody ever claimed his prize.

Let me demonstrate it.

We've never met, right? I SEE A NAVEL STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR ABDOMEN.

 

[blobfish]

I wish I could believe that, I've spent years looking for a verifiable instance. So did James Randi; nobody ever claimed his prize.

The fact that no one has done something has no bearing on its possibility.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The fact that no one has done something has no bearing on its possibility.

Every few years we discover something no one dreampt existed.

 

[koalabear]

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[KingOrfeo]

The fact that no one has done something has no bearing on its possibility.

See post #18.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Every few years we discover something no one dreampt existed.

Scientists have been searching for evidence of paranormal phenomena for more than a few years and come up dry; everything that appears to be evidence of such always evaporates under bright light.