• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    4 天前

    Trump would not be where he is without 24/7 promotion by conservative media. They were the ones who figured out how to sell a New York real estate scammer to rural idiots.

    He speaks with the conviction of a tent revival evangilist, which is a skill, but isn’t intelligence.

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      which is a skill, but isn’t intelligence.

      I would argue that’s a semantic dispute. The definition of intelligence changes based on the context of the argument.

      Most people would say neurosurgery requires a high degree of intellect…and then there’s Ben Carson.

      So is neurosurgery, one of the higher degrees of modern medicine simply a skill? If so, what exactly is intelligence?

      Imo intellect is just human construct that is used to delineate certain types of skill from others. People on a whole aren’t usually competent outside of their fields of expertise, and defining intellect as competency in all aspects just makes nearly everyone an idiot.

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        Skills are what you can do, intelligence is what you know. They interact with each other.

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          And how do they delineate? Wouldn’t you by definition have to know something to be able to do something?

          Kinda sounds like you are just trying to construct artificial barriers to segregate certain types of knowledge from perceived intellect.

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            Wouldn’t you by definition have to know something to be able to do something?

            It is like practicing something and doing it.

            Are you doing the thing when you practice? Does doing something count as practice? Why do we have two words if they are the same thing?

            And again, they interact with each other. Obama’s speeches were like 50% intelligence and 50% skill because he thought about what he was saying and had skill in conveying it. Trump is 100% skill because he spouts whatever comes to mind at that moment and he changes it up entirely based on the crowd reaction.

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              Are you doing the thing when you practice? Does doing something count as practice?

              Lol, this is semantic reasoning.

              Why do we have two words if they are the same thing?

              Have you not heard of a synonym?

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                  No, like I originally stated. I just don’t like some people’s narrow interpretation of intellect. I don’t really care what you think specifically, your opinion doesn’t really matter to anyone but yourself.