Annoyance comments on The Frontal Syndrome - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Annoyance 01 June 2009 04:10PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 02 June 2009 06:16:50PM 0 points [-]

Your point is well-made. However, you miss the deep issue - why is it that IQ test problems don't require the vastly important functions and capabilities that lobotomized patients lack?

The answer to that question, I believe, reveals the difference between being bright - which IQ is an approximate measure of - and being intelligent - which IQ doesn't indicate.

Comment author: Alicorn 02 June 2009 07:06:34PM 1 point [-]

Can you elaborate on your working definitions of "bright" and "intelligent"? They don't seem to map onto mine.

Comment author: Annoyance 02 June 2009 07:07:46PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. I'd prefer to do so in a post rather than a comment, though. I should have something ready in a few days.