This is the first time I read your #Insight and it turns out that it will be the last #insight. You made a great historical and conceptual review of Intelligence!
I have never been keen on intelligence measurement as we surely still don't know what intelligence is. Ever since I was a child I have always perceived myself as smart and clever. So why not intelligent, too? Then, when I got to university and was introduced to Raven's Progressive Matrices I was absolutely sure that my score would be somewhere on the very bottom of the scale. I have never been good at mathematics or special rotation. Maybe this meant that I was not as intelligent as I thought?! Anyway, to my surprise I did well on Raven's Matrices. But still I am not keen on measuring intelligence. Unfortunately, the issue with Intelligence is not that harmless. A lot of companies buy "intelligence tests" to test their candidates. There is a whole "intelligence-testing industry" out there. People's jobs depend on something that we are not completely sure what is it and how to measure it?!
Anyway, this is a bit offtopic :)
I see that besides Psychology you like hiking. So, do I :) So, I will be coming around! :)
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Sorry for late response - I was hiking without any internet connection ;)
We can somewhat approximately measure what intelligence is. And sometimes it is very important. That's why army was always interested in measuring IQ - they need manpower all the time, but at the same time the cannot afford having people not productive or that may cause some harm with weapons / sharing information, etc. They found out that anyone lower than (as far as I remember) 87 IQ score is worthless and dangerous in army. That's kind of cruel, but I see their point. I think similar things are going on in companies. They want their gains and that's understandable. When we add morals and feelings to that it feels inhuman, but hey, me and you would also like to have a rather more than less intelligent employees / partners / friends.