what is the difference between intelligence & common sense?

Answer 1

Intelligence, by itself, is simply an indication of the Ability to learn and retain knowledge and does not automatically guarantee the capability to use that knowledge effectively.

Common sense is the ability to use your intelligence to apply experience and what knowledge you have in an efficient, effective manner.

Answer 2

There are several different types of intelligence, and common sense would be one type of thinking that would be considered one type of intelligence. Having a lot of common sense, however, may not necessarily mean that the person who has it has an overall high level of intelligence. Its just one type of thinking.

Intelligence is the ability to process information efficiently and quickly, to learn easily, and to see the big and small pictures easily. People can be very intelligent and have common sense, or they can be not so intelligent but have common sense. Maybe it is more the ability to think rather than the ability to learn.

I have known people who are said to be "mentally slow" who show excellent common sense.

Answer 3

I believe a person with good common sense is actually an individual with a very high emotional intelligence, rather than an individual with just book smart intelligence. I know many people who are extremely book smart, but have no emotional intelligence at all.

Answer 4

Is there a difference between common sense and intelligence because I aint got either!

Answer 5

common sense is a by-product of intelligence. Being intelligent means taking time out to study and learn in order to feed your brain. Common sense is your sixth sence which tells you a result of an action without having to see it happen.. Like knowing that you will burn if you touch a burning coal.

Answer 6

Intelligence is knowing how to use a knife and fork.Common sense is knowing enough not to cut your fingers off.

Answer 7

Common sense is knowing something, intelligence is knowing why something happens.

Everybody knows E=MC^2, but do they understand it?

Answer 8

Common sense = a culturally shared belief.

Intellegence = the ability to see 'common sense' as that.

Answer 9

Intelligence is what you know

Common sense is knowing how to use your intelligence

Answer 10

Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. In common parlance, the term smart, metaphorically used is frequently the synonym of situational and behavioral (i.e. observed and context dependent) intelligence.

Although many regard the concept of intelligence as having a much broader scope, for example in cognitive science and computer science, in some schools of psychology, the study of intelligence generally regards this trait as distinct from creativity, personality, character, or wisdom.

Definitions of intelligence
At least two major "consensus" definitions of intelligence have been proposed. First, from "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" a report of a task force convened by the American Psychological Association in 1995:

Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person’s intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria. Concepts of "intelligence" are attempts to clarify and organize this complex set of phenomena.
A second definition of intelligence comes from "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994:

a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.

One meaning of common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction of the term, is what people in common would agree: that which they "sense" in common as their common natural understanding. Some use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that in their opinion they consider would in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by people "in common". The knowledge and experience most people have, or are believed to have by the person using the term.

Whatever definition is considered apt, identifying particular items of knowledge that are "common sense" is more difficult. Philosophers may choose to avoid using the phrase where precise language is required. Common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to by many philosophers. Some related concepts include intuitions, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language, the frame problem, foundational beliefs, endoxa, and axioms.

Common sense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience, and thus commensurate with human scale. Thus there is no commonsense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances or speeds approaching that of light.