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From: reid@uwvax.ARPA (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Slow Intelligence
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 16:41:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 16:41:53 1983
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When people's intelligence is evaluated, at least subjectively, it is common
to hear such things as "He is brilliant but never applies himself," or "She
is very intelligent, but can never seem to get anything accomplished due to
her short attention span."  This seems to imply to me that intelligence is
sort of like voltage--it is potential.  Another analogy might be a 
weight-lifter, in the sense that no one doubts her
ability to do amazing physical things, based on her appearance, but she needn't
prove it on a regular basis....  I'm not at all sure that people's working
definition of intelligence has anything at all to do with either time or sur-
vival.  



Glenn Reid
..seismo!uwvax!reid  (reid@uwisc.ARPA)