Do you find humans to be generally intelligent, or just collectively?

Question

It cannot be denied that our collective intelligence is more than remarkable, but honestly, the people I run into every day are not exactly exhibits of that intelligence.

Answer 1

The varying degrees of intelligence amongst individuals fall on a normal curve. That means the vast majority of people that we encounter in our daily lives are "average." And since most of us are average, we don't seem all that smart to each other. Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that YOU are above average in intelligence. That means that an even smaller percentage of the humans you encounter are going to be "smarter" than you are. It is really only a small percentage of humans who move us "forward" (it is up for debate if we are moving forward or not) with new technology, great writing, innovative ideas, etc. The rest of us just slog along the best we can.

Answer 2

Then you need to reconsider your intrinsic conduct a little. You try to say that just because some individual social being is less active now and others more active sometimes towards the social reality does not mean anything since we all must internally matriculate the same realities but to each his own specific level and qualitatively original form as social activities ourselves. Some are capable and confident in some social activitie and another may not be at all. Does that mean less intelligence or does that mean perhaps a differing level towards the entire social activity; And to consider collective intelligence as a factor to typify all beings is incorrect. We are typically social individuals who create social collectivity not social collectivity that creates individuals social beings.

Answer 3

Compared to what? If compared to other animals we are obviously much more intelligent. But as a society, compared to the most intelligent individual we do some pretty dumb things. You see examples every day of why it does not take intelligence to biologically be a good parent. It takes intelligence to sociologically be a good parent, no wonder we have a "challenged" society with some of the bad parenting you see. .

Answer 4

About a year ago, a poll was conducted on both sides of the Atlantic. Most people perceived themselves to not only be intelligent, but they also thought they were attractive and popular. Very few thought of themselves as "average" in any category. Seems there are a lot more people with high self esteem than we believed.

Answer 5

that's true...i know quite a few dull lightbulbs...
humans r not the smartest living things...i think mice are first, hten dolphins, and then humans...we are considered intelligent because we are one of the mose advanced organism types...i dont think we're considred intelligent brain-wise

Answer 6

neither