If you had to choose between intelligence and common sense, which would you choose? Why?

Answer 1

I would choose intelligence over common sense because I am fascinated by what intelligent people have to say, but I never met a person with great common sense, but low intelligence, that interested me in the slightest.

Besides, intelligent people are sooo good lookin'!

Answer 2

Intelligence. Common sense often is not common or sense or if it is sense, an intelligent person made an observation about a situation and past on an effective way to deal with it. To put it a different way "common sense" is simply the result of informal intelligent thought.

Answer 3

If I could only have one or the other? Living in the USA, I'd choose intelligence. From everything I can see, common sense is not necessary for survival here; in fact, it seems to be missing entirely from large segments of the population. Especially those commuting on Seattle freeways at 7 am.

In less developed countries, I think maybe I'd pick common sense. It might be more useful in the long run.

Answer 4

Common sense, it would be awful to be able to plan a space mission and not know how to operate a microwave oven.