What makes someone intelligent?
If you think someone is intelligent, why do you think they are?

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what makez someone intelligent...
well . . . i think they should both b smart in school and street smart. As in smart, i mean smart as in knowing his/her surroundings and using them for his/her advantage.

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choices they make, and the way they think.

being smart is knowing a lot, being intelligent is how you utilize that knowledge i think.

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What do you know?
How do you know it?
What are you going to do about it?
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Those are good questions for determining the mental capacities of someone.


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there it is.

The smart person would only be able to answer the first one, and give a primitive answer to the second one.

The intelligent one would be able to clearly answer all of them i think.

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I agree with you.

But, for the sake of discussion... what if someone is really bright and has a firm grasp on what he/she knows (questions 1 and 2)...... and doesn't know what to do with his/her life; i.e. what college to go to, what to major in, etc.

Does he/she lack an answer to #3? If so, is that person somehow less intelligent?

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yes, that makes them less intelligent. They aren't able to utilize their knowledge fully, which by my definition makes them not as intelligent as one who can.

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Originally posted by twinkie
what makez someone intelligent...
well . . . i think they should both b smart in school and street smart. As in smart, i mean smart as in knowing his/her surroundings and using them for his/her advantage.

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i think to be itelligent you need to knoe big words and
knowing how much vocabulary you knoe determines how smart you are.....damn i wish i could speak weel proper english like those harvard motha fukkaz i wanna talk like a wank

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One's judgment of intelligence is relative to their own.
I consider people intelligent if they understand what I mean when I say something, and don't just take it for face value.

Hell, beyond that, not just when I say something, but in general. I don't like people who prejudice against me or anyone without some sort of experience towards their opinion.

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