@mono@lain so i guess that's more an argument against precision in such measurements, rather than saying they can't be made
any precise measurement of "intelligence" glosses over the effects of specialisation in the same way it does natural day-to-day variation in performance and the affects of maturation and aging. people are just hard to pin down and constantly changing
when i got ranked at "140" or whatever when taking one of those IQ tests as a teenager (vaguely remember it being lots of word games and math puzzles and spatial reasoning), i expect if i had taken one again somewhere else, or on a different day when i was "performing" better or worse, things would have varied a great deal, as they would have with a different education or specialisation. and i also expect i would score much worse on such a test now than i did then, despite having matured through the rest of puberty and gained greater emotional insight in the process
@mono@lain autism exists and is a recognisable trait
anyways though, i didn't want to start talking about "emotional intelligence" in particular, but rather just point out that the ways our individual brains work varies too greatly to be easily measured
like sure, generalisations about "slow" and "fast" can be made, but the way modern computers using the exact same components but combining them in slightly different ways can be specialised for particular workloads (sometimes spreading across 8 cores is good [lots of processing power to spread across] and sometimes it's bad [memory bottlenecking and other overhead], or different cache layouts or strategies are specialised for different applications and so on) seems a decent parallel to draw with our own brains that rely much more on this sort of interconnection
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