Gee, Scoob, I wonder if screencap is relevant to pop music's effect on the brain? (link in comments)
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The theory of multiple intelligences has been disproven. There’s only IQ, and it’s genetic. Average Ashkenazi IQ is around 103, despite a famous flawed study claiming 115. It’s not their intelligence.
Disproven? More like disputed. And yes, there is an "overall" IQ score, which is partially explained by genetics, epigenetics, and upbringing.
It’s not real. The idea of multiple intelligences is an emotional tool used to make people feel that everyone can be special in their own way. In reality, all of those multiple intelligences almost perfectly correlate with the intelligence “g factor”; if you are intelligent in one area, you’re also intelligent in the others. That’s what IQ is.
You're not doing the counter argument justice. We can measure intelligence with standard IQ tests with reliability (it is just a proxy after all for actual intelligence), or with another kind of proxy measurement (SAT scores). When you do that, the law of large numbers kicks in and you get a "normal" probability distribution, also called a bell curve. Seems pretty solid, from a social science perspective anyway, mostly due to replication.
However, different kinds of tests geared toward measuring things like spatial reasoning over logic give results that show, like real world experience, people have different strengths and weaknesses. Do these average out in standard IQ test. Yes and no. We all know first hand someone book smart but otherwise stupid.
Take your example, a low IQ person, and have them study mathematics extremely heavily for a sustained period of time. They'll develop mathematical skills far exceeding their other abilities. That's not intelligence, it's rote memorization of patterns. If then a novel mathematics problem comes up, their low IQ will pose a barrier. This new problem will be extremely hard to solve because it requires making actual novel connections, not just regurgitating what they are familiar with.
Those are the "strengths and weaknesses" you mention. They're not intelligence, just skills developed over time. Yes we all know a "book smart" person who is stupid, but they are not actually smart. They just memorized specific patterns. It took them much longer to do that than it would take an otherwise intelligent person.
We all know a genuinely intelligent person who excels at many different things, from logical problems to creative tasks. They pick things up quickly, and while they need to develop skills over time, this is done really fast relative to other people. They're really just good at everything.
>It’s not their intelligence.
it's the satanic parasites getting passed when the rabbi sucks on newly mutilated and bleeding infant schlong.