How is intelligence measured?

Question

Because some people excel socially whilst other excel academically? Therefore an academically smart person could be considered dumb by a socially intelligent person and vice versa. Or do they go hand in hand?

Answer 1

The traditional way of measuring intelligence is with a norm based IQ test. That gives your total intelligence quotient and also your score for a variety of intelligence facets that can be readily measured. However, professionals in both the psychological and educational field believe that there are many facets of intelligence that are not so readily measured. For instance, the one you referred to as social intelligence. Howard Gardner, well known for his work with Multiple Intelligences, refers to this as inter personal intelligence. In short the answer to your questions is yes. There are many different facets of intelligence in each individual. However, many of them cannot be quantified or measured accurately yet, so we still used the I.Q. tests that don't really tap into all the facets of intelligence.

Answer 2

If only you knew how many times I had pondered the same question! I think it's odd how a person can be labelled intelligent because of grades they gain in an exam and another can be overlooked or called thick because they have no qualifications when they may be equipped better socially than the former.

In my opinion, there are many different forms of intelligence and life is a huge lesson in itself. To me, wisdom is the most precious gift a person can have. If you look at some of the most academically intelligent people, I think you may find that a lot of them have difficulty in the social aspect of their lives and vice versa; so perhaps the most intelligent people are those who excel both socially and academically (though I have yet to meet a person who fits this criteria).

If only there were an accurate way to measure social intelligence: maybe then we would have a clearer picture of what intelligence really means.

Answer 3

Intelligence is essentially governed by how well you use your actions to make your way through the world you live in. If an academically smart person gets the crap beat out of them because he accidentally insults people by being arrogant, then obviously he's not very smart! A socially smart person needs other people to feed off of in order to exist. If you dropped them off in the middle of a desert they probably wouldn't live long.

It seems if you take a person out of the area they excel in, they're not so smart after all! This means you can only determine the intelligence of a person when comparing them to other people who are striving for similar goals.

Answer 4

Their are many types of intelligence, but I think they're grouped into academic intelligence and emotional intelligence and yes you can definately excel in one and be marvellously rubbish at the other. For example, I know a 15 year old chap who had a severe head injury when he was 2 years old and therefore has quite severe dyslexia and developmental dyspraxia and yet he is amazingly on form emotionally...far more than I was at that age.

Answer 5

Intelligence is measured by the Intelligence Quotient or IQ.

Some people are intellectually gifted. Others are gifted in other areas...such as social skill, athletics, art, music, etc.

YOu can't really compare one to the other to decide. Who is more gifted, Albert Einstein or Rembrandt? Both are among the most gifted in their field. Rembrandt would probably be considered "dumb" in physics, but Einstein would be considered "dumb" in art.

Similarly, somone could be especially gifted in social skills...have a knack for connecting with people. Maybe someone like Jerry Seinfeld...or Tim Robbins or some great speakers might fit into that category.

Answer 6

Intelligence is measured differently depending on 1) which culture you are in and 2) which part of the culture you are in.

For example, I teach and do research at the college level and my next door neighbor runs several businesses. Society would consider me smart because of my I.Q., but it would consider my neighbor smart because he is rich

Coincidentally, he runs the youth activities in our church on Wednesday nights, and I teach Sunday School to the youth on Sunday. Even though society considers both of us to be intelligent, the youth think my neighbor is awesome and they think I am an insufferable bore (probably because I use expressions like "insufferable bore").

But at the same time Society is rewarding me with awards and accolades for my work in the field of Sociology.

So who's more intelligent? In mainstream America we are both considered intelligent. In an aboriginal society we would both be idiots (and this one does hit a little close to home for me). But even within American society, the way we measure intelligence is completely dependent on where we are at, whether it is the world of business, academia, or religion.

Answer 7

Intelligence Quota test

Answer 8

Excelling socially doesn't require people to be intelligent... not that people who do excel socially are never intelligent, but it's not a requirement, certainly not in modern celeb-trash culture.

It's the ability to grasp the full significance of the subjects about which you speak.

Answer 9

IQ assessments degree relative intelligence, no longer unquestionably the single. that could be a statistical theory which says that for the period of any inhabitants, 0.5 of the folk will score above one hundred factors, and 0.5 will score below one hundred. this suggests that your IQ relies upon on the place you reside, your social status, etc... that is correlated with intelligence, although that is not any longer fixed to it. IMO, the real try of intelligence is with the flexibility to stay to tell the tale your teenage years.

Answer 10

By academics, cause people who's work that requires more diffucult thinking (neurosurgon, Physics teacher) are more thought of as being smarter, no matter what there social skills are.