What constitutes how smart you are, how much you know or how fast you learn ?

[username n/a]

What constitutes how smart you are, how much you know or how fast you learn ?

[mvw356]

neither of them

[Yngwie 4String]

A combination of nature vs nurture. In other words it has to do with genetics (Nature) and whether or not you grow up and live in an environment that fosters intellictual persuit (Nurture). Ill be happy to expand on this explanation if needed.

[nortonrider]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

Ill be happy to expand on this explanation if needed.

Please enlighten us.

[username n/a]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

Ill be happy to expand on this explanation if needed.

Meh go for it, I got nothin better to do.

[Darkstrike]

Nothing in particular, IMO, its just who you are really.

[pedroims]

Originally Posted by username n/a

What constitutes how smart you are, how much you know or how fast you learn ?

I'd say. depends on how much you can do with what you know and how fast you can learn from something that you did wrong

[playinpearls]

common sense.

[Jeremy Crockett]

What about synthesis, application of knowledge and retention thereof? Surely that might come into play?

[Yngwie 4String]

Nature vs. Nurture is a long time debate in the worlds of science and psychology. People who feel nature is the determining factor say that we are simply born intelligent or not intelligent. Those who feel nuture is the determining factor believe that how smart we become and how fast our brain processes cognition is a result of the environment in which we grow up.
Lately people are realising that it is a combination of these to factors. A man born with high intelligence is going to be smarter than the people around him. A man born with below average intelligence is not going to be as smart as his peers. That is the nature part.
However if you take a very intelligent person and place them in a hostile enviroment, for example the ghetto, it is going to be very difficult for him to use his intelligence and eventually his brain will shift to survival, because that is what he needs to do within that environment.In constrast if you take a person of below average intelligence and put them in an enviroment that promotes learning, their cognition will improve. This is the nurture component.

Understand?

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

Nature vs. Nurture is a long time debate in the worlds of science and psychology. People who feel nature is the determining factor say that we are simply born intelligent or not intelligent. Those who feel nuture is the determining factor believe that how smart we become and how fast our brain processes cognition is a result of the environment in which we grow up.
Lately people are realising that it is a combination of these to factors. A man born with high intelligence is going to be smarter than the people around him. A man born with below average intelligence is not going to be as smart as his peers. That is the nature part.
However if you take a very intelligent person and place them in a hostile enviroment, for example the ghetto, it is going to be very difficult for him to use his intelligence and eventually his brain will shift to survival, because that is what he needs to do within that environment.In constrast if you take a person of below average intelligence and put them in an enviroment that promotes learning, their cognition will improve. This is the nurture component.

Understand?

Doesn't really answer the original question though...

I think that it is a combination of what you know and how fast you learn, but also how well you apply your knowledge. It is no use being able to learn lots of stuff very quickly if you then can't apply the knowledge.

[Yngwie 4String]

The answer to the question is that a combination of natural born intelligence, and what kind of surroundings you grow up in will determine how smart you are.

[AlphaMale]

Who cares?

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

The answer to the question is that a combination of natural born intelligence, and what kind of surroundings you grow up in will determine how smart you are.

Aha! You see, that was much clearer.

[Yngwie 4String]

Howard Garndener, a pschologist in the early 80's purposed the idea of Multiple Intelligences. He said people where smart in diferent ways rather than collectively smart or dumb.

More Info on this theory here:
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multi...elligences.htm

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

Howard Garndener, a pschologist in the early 80's purposed the idea of Multiple Intelligences. He said people where smart in diferent ways rather than collectively smart or dumb.

More Info on this theory here:
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multi...elligences.htm

So he came up with the theory that people have strengths and weaknesses? I didn't know that they had only worked that out in the early 80s

[Jeremy Crockett]

Originally Posted by Happynoj

So he came up with the theory that people have strengths and weaknesses? I didn't know that they had only worked that out in the early 80s

That's okay. Folks weren't sure that men and women are different until 3 years ago too!

http://www.livescience.com/health/050120_brain_sex.html

[Yngwie 4String]

Yeah a lot of psychology is like that. Basically just write down obvious stuff and give it a name.

[nortonrider]

Go a little easy on him, the kid is just trying to impart his knowledge upon us.

Suggestion Yngwie:
Maybe your NEXT username could be: Yoda4string.

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by Yngwie 4String

Yeah a lot of psychology is like that. Basically just write down obvious stuff and give it a name.

I always knew psychology A Level wasn't a real subject!