Questions tagged [intelligence]
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.
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Is The Bell Curve really refuted? [closed]
The Bell Curve is a controversial book about IQ and, in a broad sense of the expression, success in life from 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
In this Wikipedia article, in the ...
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Are (modern) computers/AI (only) as intelligent as Apises (Bees)?
Modern computer systems contain only a few hundred thousand neurons and in rare cases, a few million, which, in terms of intelligence, is comparable to a bee.
Ab Bees & AI
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Is IIT consciousness theory a pseudo science?
Nature writes
It [a letter] argues that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something conscious — called the integrated information theory (IIT) — should be labelled as pseudoscience.
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Did a pro-Ukraine group blow up Nordstream pipeline?
A recent NYT post claims that "Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say". How true is this claim?
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Did the CIA blow up the Nordstream 1 pipeline, using BALTOPS 22 as cover?
In September 2022, the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines off the coast of Denmark were sabotaged
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist, recently published a blog post, How ...
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Does looking at screens damage your brain?
I found several articles that warn of the dangers of too much computer time, especially for children.
Oxford Learning, Jun 2010: Too much computer time can be bad for your brain
However, a recent ...
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Did the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) accuse China of pressuring the WHO to suppress news about the Wuhan outbreak?
As reported on Arirang TV and in (more clear detail) on Taiwan News
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news ...
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Was John von Neumann able to recall from memory every book he had ever read?
From Wikipedia's article on Eidetic memory's prevalence
According to Herman Goldstine, the mathematician John von Neumann was able to recall from memory every book he had ever read. [15]
Refering ...
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Does the US Armed Forces refuse to recruit anyone with an IQ less than 83?
In this video, Jordan Peterson claims the following.
You can't induct someone into the Armed Forces in the US if they have an IQ of less than 83.
He claims that the armed forces needs an accurate ...
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Is low emotional intelligence associated with right-wing and prejudiced attitudes?
Accordiing to Diply,
Researchers in Belgium have linked a lack of emotional intelligence with right-wing political views, reports PsyPost. The study, published in Emotion, found that those who ...
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Are fussy babies more intelligent?
When I talk about my fussy baby, many people tell me half-jokingly that fussy babies are on average more intelligent than "easy" babies. The idea is not unusual. See for example here:
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Do these five football players have exceptionally high IQs?
This Sokkaa.com article is one of many claiming that these handful of football players have exceptionally high IQs.
Most of the football players in the world are evaluated based on physical health, ...
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Do the Irish have on average a 8 point lower IQ then the British?
The website Brainstats lists IQs for different countries and lists 92 for Ireland while it lists 100 for the United Kingdom. Those numbers are surprising to me. Are they backed by good evidence?
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Do Japanese crows use traffic to crack nutshells?
In a BBC article, its contended that:
In a Japanese city, carrion crows have discovered how to eat nuts that
they usually find too hard to tackle. One method is to drop the nuts
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Will koalas eat pre-plucked eucalyptus leaves?
Various sources online (including a frequent copy-pasta disparaging the animal) claim that koalas will not recognize eucalyptus leaves as food if they are cleanly laid out on a table in front of them, ...
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