Talk:Intelligence/Archive 3

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False dichotomy

The current lede glaringly contrasts g with the trendy "multiple intelligences". G is not a "unilinear construct" which the noveau multiple intelligences transcends. Rather, g was from the beginning the abstract correlate of these disparate concrete factors identified by regression. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 12:18, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Considering that this article is the general (ahem) article on intelligence, rather than the psychometrically oriented article Intelligence quotient, my problem with the current lede is that it focuses much, much too much on the psychometric approach to intelligence and not enough on approaches to intelligence found in the disciplines of philosophy or computer science or animal behavior. The lede here should be considerably broadened, and that might cure the emphasis issue that you mention (although perhaps not entirely to your personal satisfaction). -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 13:23, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

G (the parameter) and IQ (a particular statistical measure) are not the same thing, though of course they are related. G is the thing which would be the proper reference of general intelligence, at least in humans. If this article had a larger scope than that then that would be a different story. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 19:43, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

So only problem is with that current first sentence of the second ¶. Suggest it just be removed. For this article to in fact be a general article about intelligence, not just human, would be great but it probably wouldn't work with existing wiki policies. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 20:34, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

There isn't any Wikipedia policy problem at all in having broad articles—at least as broad as those found in other encyclopedias. There is always, in an all-volunteer project, the difficulty of finding editors who can devote time and effort to finding reliable sources and writing new article text to fill out neglected sections of articles. I'll try to do what I can when I can. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 23:12, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

BTW, Stupidity is tagged for deletion. If it were handled like ugliness it would be moved as a section here. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 19:58, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Split page: Human intelligence

This page should be about intelligence, not human intelligence. More than 50% of the page addresses just human intelligence. While it's true that the vast majority of people are completely anthropocentric and might never agree with it, intelligence is just a property of a machine or an algorithm. My suggestion is: move the human-related sections to Human intelligence, keep the definitions of intelligence in this page, and add a universal definition of intelligence.

There are plenty of universal definitions of intelligence (don't call them "mathematical", it scares people):[1][2][3][4]. Most of them are similar. Don't be scared by the maths, it's really easy to understand: intelligence basically means the ability to predict the next terms in a sequence "1,3,5,7...". This is equivalent to data compression. When we do science, we are trying to predict the output of the experiments.

Meanwhile I'm going to move human intelligence to a section of the article. --81.38.208.25 (talk) 12:24, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Agreed that this article, by its existing contrast with other articles (and by expressed editor interest) needs to be broader and to take in more encyclopedic information about nonhuman intelligence. One place to look for such information is the Further reading section already in this article. Another place to look is in the source list on my user space, which I am continually updating. I plan to edit this article along those lines (expanding the treatment of intelligence in the animal intelligence and artificial intelligence fields, and contracting the treatment of the human psychometric tradition) as I begin more edits of article text. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 14:29, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Noting the suggestion of split tag on this article, I would say, no, there is already a bunch of articles on human intelligence. This article merely needs to be rewritten to give more more prominence to animal intelligence and machine intelligence, and summary style here and wikilinks to the existing articles will do the rest. Condensation of content is needed here, yes, but I think not a split. I'm delighted to hear from other editors what they think. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 15:06, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Reminder of source list for articles on intelligence.

A huge portion of the talk page here was just archived, so this is a friendly reminder of sources we can all share as we edit this and related articles. You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Intelligence Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on all aspects of intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 15:09, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Actual distribution is χ² not Gaussian

Have looked over space of articles on this topic and don't see this fact expressed anywhere. It's fairly well know that the actual distribution of g/IQ deviates significantly from a normal curve with more in the tails than would fit a normal curve and the probability peak density skewed very significantly to the right. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 23:50, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Source, please? WP:V. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 03:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Britannica for one, recounts the basic fact mentioned, someone will need to do more research for the math stats specifics, quick googling when I started this thread didn't turn up anything readily. Trivially, all empirically sampled PDFs tend to the Gaussian limit, the actual PDF that best fits the observation is what's at issue and its parameters are what is missing (the basic function, degrees of freedom, etc.). The difference between a chimp and the average citoyen is the same as that between the same mean gaussian normal individual and the some 50K+ Americans over 4 σ so the mathematical details of this speciation has considerable import. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 11:07, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

What's the full citation to that page of that print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica? I rather suspect that some author is outrunning the data in reaching that conclusion. Check the source list for other possible sources. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 14:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

EB 15th Edition, Macropædia Vol. 9 p. 675, as is clear from the image. 1980 printing. The author is H. Carl Haywood. Haywood's expertise lies more on the left hand tail, but see no reason to doubt what he put in EB about the right. Likely the information is in the sources in your list or can gotten thru references in them or at the end of the Haywood Macropedia article, can't spend more time on the wp content myself. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 19:04, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

That's exceedingly old for a general statement about IQ distributions. All the major brands of IQ tests have been renormed more than once since then. Only the Wechsler tests had minimally adequate norming samples back in those days--the norming samples for the Stanford-Binet in that era were very bad, and I have sources in the source list to back up the statement that the Stanford-Binet norms were inadequate. We would need more recent, and better replicated, information to change article text to make any unusual point about IQ score distributions. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 20:15, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

LOL. Did do a second search on "actual distribution of iq" and did yield some results but not going to follow up. In general if you look at the empirical plots, including those of Lynn and Vanhannen(?) you see the spikes on either side of the mean. It's not a changing thing (over the last 4 or 5 decades in North America anyway) except that Flynn effect shifts the central peak. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 21:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

My rerun of the search you mention doesn't inspire confidence that there is anything that comes from a Wikipedia reliable source to back up changing article text on that point. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 02:50, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Your perspective appears to be narrow, parochial, shallow and excessively personal. In time no doubt the facts I relate will make it into main space if they remain as persisting conditions. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 10:24, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

In Our Time

The BBC programme In Our Time presented by Melvyn Bragg has an episode which may be about this subject (if not moving this note to the appropriate talk page earns cookies). You can add it to "External links" by pasting * {{In Our Time|Intelligence|p00545l3}}. Rich Farmbrough, 03:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC).

Encyclopedia articles on intelligence or intellect for wikipedians

While browsing in academic libraries to search for sources to update this and other articles on Wikipedia, I have discovered that there are numerous multi-volume specialty encyclopedias in English and in some other languages with articles on intelligence or on intellect. For example, there is more than one published encyclopedia of psychology, more than one encyclopedia of philosophy, more than one encyclopedia of social science, more than one medical encyclopedia, and various other encyclopedias that have one or more articles about intelligence. One of the best ways to improve this article here, which I intend to implement after this notice on the talk page, is to read all of those articles generally, taking note of what reliable secondary sources they cite, and then to rewrite this article from beginning to end, aiming at encyclopedic treatment and sourcing. We can do that in our own Wikipedian words, after the example of existing published encyclopedia articles on intelligence. It would be great to hear from you about what encyclopedia articles on intelligence you can find in libraries in your community. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 01:07, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Better placement of template this time

As several editors are aware, on various article talk pages there is discussion of the rather new template that has been attached to this article and to some arguably related articles by the creator of the template. I have expressed the editorial opinion in various places that a) the links included in the template need more discussion (which would best be discussed on the template talk page, or that b) which pages the template is attached to needs more discussion (which would generally be discussed on each article talk page, as here), or c) whether a top template or bottom template would be more reader-friendly (a mixed issue, as that perhaps depends on what else is on top of a particular article). All these issues relate to the general issue of what the scope of human "intelligence" is, definitely an issue for article text in this article, and how that topic relates to several other topics that may be more or less closely related to whatever that topic is. The various issues can be discussed on the basis of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and of course on the basis of sources. I have been compiling a source list to share with other wikipedians related to this topic for half a year now, and I continue to seek and accept suggestions for updates of the source list. Only about half the books I have in my office at the moment have even been logged on to the list yet, and dozens of articles I have downloaded from various online databases will also be added to the list in due course. Meanwhile, let's all discuss what article rewrites and what wikilinking will best reflect the best available sources and help readers of Wikipedia better understand the professional literature as we collaborate to build an encyclopedia. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 16:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

disambiguation and redirect discussion: intelligence, intellect, nous etc

A discussion has started elsewhere which editors of this article are invited to comment about. But please respond here.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 08:57, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Add The Limits of Intelligence in SciAm June 14, 2011

Add The Limits of Intelligence: The laws of physics may well prevent the human brain from evolving into an ever more powerful thinking machine by Douglas Fox in Scientific American June 14, 2011. 108.73.114.77 (talk) 03:48, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Would this be an "add" to non-human animal cognition too? 99.190.81.244 (talk) 06:32, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Inter legĕre vs intus legĕre

Intelligence comes from the latin word "intelligentia". The latin ethimology is formed by the crasis (union) of two word "intus" "legĕre", not "inter" "legĕre", that is a more inappropriate "lectio". Where intus means "inside", "into", "deep". And "legĕre" means "to read". Intus-legere is a couple of latin words that means the ability of a person to "read" what is going on "in" a situation, looking "into" or "under" the surface of facts, events, and sensations. In short words, to actually understand. (Frankie) 17:39, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Skills and aptitudes

Am I right in saying that intelligence is a combination of skills and aptitudes? If so, wouldn't it be pertinent to point that out in this article, which seems to focus on the ambiguous "abilities" phrasing?72.187.98.128 (talk) 11:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Factors associated with intelligence

The Template:Human intelligence has a problem with the factors section. While the subsection details that Correlation is not causation a factor is something that has to have a level of causation. while an attempt to water down the statement using the word associated, it still leads to a scientifically incorrect assertion. I think that the sidebar needs to avoid presenting dubious correlations alongside mainstream research.Tetron76 (talk) 12:52, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Since your questions are about the template, shouldn't you be posting to the template's talk page? It has nothing to do with this article. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 13:44, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I am moving this to the template talk page. But it does relate to this article as the article contains the source list with the same heading.Tetron76 (talk) 15:19, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I can't seem to find much that defines intelligence very well. I'll throw in some thoughts though. To me intelligence is the ability to:

• absorb information (as is, receive all that is presented)
• retain information (as is, not forget, particularly "good" information)
• analyze information (as is, determine its veracity or "truth" from all the information received and retained); and
• apply or utilize that information (to some advantage usually e.g. make good decisions)

These thoughts are not offered as facts but opinions - I ask the readership to comment here.--173.69.135.105 (talk) 02:21, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Forerunners of psychological thoughts

From New pages patrol, Hi, ^{Orschstaffer/Principal}, This is a school assignment I am looking into the New pages patrol, this (New article ) may fall within the scope of your stuff (Intelligence). You may wish to watch me as this page (Intelligence) might end up in my classroom. O=MC^{4 Orschstaffer/Principal}, This is a school assignment O=MC⁴ 11:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

King's University College

―I have decided to edit this article for Psych 2410A at King’s 2012‖ <Bfargher88 (talk) 15:26, 20 September 2012 (UTC)>

Welcome, and good luck! Lova Falk talk 11:50, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

I will be researching Piaget's theory of cognitive development throughly and adding some information on intelligence and child development. I will be referencing Piaget's book, The Psychology of Intelligence (2001), as well as Origins of Intelligence: Infancy and Early Childhood (1983), by Michael Lewis. I am going to explain the four stages of Piaget's theory explain and how he associates them with the development of psychometric IQ. Another area where I will attempt to increase the quality of information is in the evolutionary development of intelligence. This section could use a little bit more information, not just a link to another page. Along with these two edits, I am researching cultural differences in how intelligence is viewed and valued.

Bfargher88 (talk) 17:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Bfargher88Bfargher88 (talk) 17:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

The sex part in Section “Improving intelligence”

I'm dissatisfied with the last paragraph of the section for two reasons: first, it implies the fallacious correlation-causation equivalency; secondly, when used in that context, those statements are—or are very close to being—improper synthesis. Everything Is Numbers (talk) 20:01, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Well, nobody seems to care about this topic, so this is what I'll do: wait 48 hours, and if nobody shows up in defense of the paragraph, I'll remove it. EIN (talk) 05:58, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I reverted the editor who removed this text.[5] It doesn't matter what any of us think of the "fallacious correlation-causation equivalency." It matters what the sources say. And this material is reliably sourced. There is no WP:SYNTHESIS in delivery of the material. Read again what WP:SYNTHESIS states. Sources are not being woven together to insert a conclusion not made explicitly clear by the sources. Also see WP:IDON'TLIKEIT. 95.142.164.78 (talk) 17:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

What I had on mind when I mentioned improper synthesis is that the statement was made in the “Improving intelligence” section so as to imply that exercise of sexual restraint ehanced those functions, while the cited source made no such claim. Is it due weight? Alright then, I'll take the neutrality ticket and replace the Kanazawa reference (which I myself added) with a statement contrasting the precedent to it (sourced, of course). EIN (talk) 22:49, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I have now moved the text out of "Improving intelligence" and into a new section, so nobody can get the idea that occasionally having kinky sex will improve their intelligence... Lova Falk talk 15:55, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Haha. Sounds good. EIN (talk) 10:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

Dead link 31

Is this a sufficent cit? Only the abstract can be viewed by the public but that does say MI is not supported by empirical evidence (as of 2006) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15326985ep4104_1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.7.20.24 (talk) 11:47, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Here is is! http://lynnwaterhouse.intrasun.tcnj.edu/Multiple%20Intelligences,%20the%20Mozart%20Effect,%20and%20Emotional%20Intelligence%20A%20Critical%20Review.pdf Lova Falk talk 18:22, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed revision to Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory

In 1993 John Carroll proposed a three stratum theory of intelligence to describe cognitive abilities. He believed that Spearman’s theory was incomplete because it was not specific enough and generalized some cognitive abilities that should be included in their own stratum. Because of this, Carroll created his three stratum theory which included another level. The three strata represent narrow, broad and general cognitive abilities.

Stratum 3(General)- The third stratum which is at the top of the hierarchy includes what Carroll called “g”. “g” includes all general knowledge and cognitive abilities. Carroll believed that “g” was the most important factor when determining intelligence but it could be broken down into many different layers.

Stratum 2(Broad)- The second stratum is split into eight factors;

1.Fluid Intelligence- This includes problem solving, understanding information, abstract thinking and making sense of things in the world. These are considered to biological intelligence which we are born with and improve on as we develop.

2. Crystallized Intelligence- This includes random facts and skills that we attain throughout our lifetime.

3. General Memory and Knowledge

4. Broad visual perception- Ability to react to a visual stimuli

5. Broad auditory perception- Ability to react to an auditory stimuli

6. Broad retrieval ability- Ability to retrieve information

7. Broad cognitive speediness- The amount of time it takes to complete cognitive processes

8. Processing speed- The amount of time it takes to process a specific stimuli

Stratum 1(Narrow)- The first level of the three stratum theory is the narrow cognitive abilities of individuals. These are very specific tasks which are broken up into 70 different narrow cognitive abilities. These narrow abilities include more specific abilities that are under the broad level, for example reading and writing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwilkinson7 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I have several comments:

• You use the word factor, I think Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory uses the word ability.
• You mention only Carroll and not Cattell-Horn
• I really hope you intend to integrate what is already in the article with what you have written here, and not just wipe out what's in the article.
• How come you have eight abilities and not ten?
• And finally, do you have good and reliable sources for the text you wrote?

With friendly regards, Lova Falk talk 20:23, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Hobbes' "intellectus intelligit"

In the History of the Term section it says this:

Hobbes for example, in his Latin De Corpore, used "intellectus intelligit" (translated in the English version as "the understanding understandeth") as a typical example of a logical absurdity.[4]

I don't understand what this statement means. I tried googling about it and the only results that came up were this article itself, Hobbes' original work (which is what the source is) and people who had copied it from wikipedia into their own documents. What does "intellectus intelligit" or "understanding understandeth" mean? and why is it an example of a logical absurdity? Is this original research? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.21.222.246 (talk) 02:04, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi 99.21.222.246! You haven't got an answer and my guess is nobody really knows. Myself, I have no clue... Lova Falk talk 15:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

APA and MSI statements on intelligence

I think we should remove the "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" and "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" definitions from the article. Both of these statements emerged from debate about The Bell Curve and presenting them here as competing viewpoints creates an illusion of false dichotomy. The content in the table is more than adequate to illustrate the range of views on the subject. I might argue that it would be better to turn to tertiary sources like textbooks and the like to handle the introduction to the section. aprock (talk) 18:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

note, this content was originally inserted back on in May 2005 by an R&I SPA [6],[7]. aprock (talk) 18:44, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Now would be a good time to follow up on this helpful suggestion. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 18:04, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Journal of Intelligence — Open Access Journal

The scope of this article is all forms of intelligence, a broader topic than just human intelligence, but human intelligence is also one subtopic of this article. Journal of Intelligence — Open Access Journal is a new, open-access, "peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical articles, state-of-the-art articles and critical reviews, case studies, original short notes, commentaries" intended to be "an open access journal that moves forward the study of human intelligence: the basis and development of intelligence, its nature in terms of structure and processes, and its correlates and consequences, also including the measurement and modeling of intelligence." The journal will include articles about animal intelligence and artificial intelligence if those illuminate the study of human intelligence. The content of the first issue is posted, and includes interesting review articles, one by Earl Hunt and Susanne M. Jaeggi and one by Wendy Johnson. The editorial board[8] of this new journal should be able to draw in a steady stream of good article submissions. It looks like the journal aims to continue to publish review articles of the kind that would meet Wikipedia guidelines for articles on medical topics, an appropriate source guideline to apply to Wikipedia articles about intelligence. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 21:25, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Hi,

I think something should be written about this. I am not sure about good sources, yet, I feel it is relevant, including SETI's search and the impact it has on how we define intelligence. How do we detect it and how we recognise it (humans, animals, plants, AI, aliens, etc.) is related in my view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.92.218.30 (talk) 04:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You wrote, "I am not sure about good sources, yet," and that is the nub of the issue. Wikipedia articles can include, article by article, fitting the topic of each article, statements that we can back up with reliable sources. If there are reliable sources on the topic you bring up here, let's look for them and see what they say. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 15:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi 203.92.218.30! Do you know that we have an article about Extraterrestrial intelligence? Maybe you can contribute to that article. Lova Falk talk 20:32, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Reference 20 - (Poole, Computational intelligence): Wrong year?

It appears to me David Poole on his website states another year regarding the publication of "Computational intelligence: A logical approach": 1998 in contrast to 1997.

I'm not confident enough to make the changes myself though, so maybe someone could verify this. 2A02:8071:25F5:6800:6191:2A7C:7DDE:FAF6 (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Culture part

I suggest we remove the new part "Culture's Influence on Intelligence". The citations are not correctly and the content seem to be weird, it talk about herbal medicine. Furthermore it have claims that are totally unsourced like: "More specifically, culture shapes intelligence. However, research shows that there is not one culture that has more intellect than the other.". I suggest we remove it and rewrite it correctly.ParanoidLemmings (talk) 09:50, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Do you have any sources to suggest? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 00:25, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

The real issue is that nobody with an interest in this page has critically read this piece of writing, which appears to be from someone's uni assignment. There are a number of assumptions and inferences made by the writer that are not supported by the cited material and these should have been detected early. Regards, William Harris • talk • 21:58, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Definition of Intelligence

I understand that different researchers have their differing views on defining intelligence depending on what aspect they like to do their research in - they probably enjoy defining something different to the other researchers to distinguish themselves - but as a global encyclopedia we don't do a good job of defining it. We see wiki-pages on these aspects linking to each other with no overall framework. I am no expert here and I am sure there are more learned minds than my own on this topic, but I am going to propose something for those minds to ponder. From the field of General systems theory (which began in biology) we have a simple framework of input, process, output (a system). Applying this to the topic of intelligence, I see the following:

• Input: Perception - this includes the senses and how they function, and attention (no use having senses if you cannot focus attention on some issue or threat)
• Process: Cognition - this includes perception, plus those processes that undertake analysis, assessment, learning, and storage into memory (what the senses detected has now been processed)
• Output: Intelligence - this includes cognition and is the application of what has been learned and stored in memory now being applied - along with other capabilities - to solve problems in the environment,

This article is tagged as Current status: Delisted good article. It is past time to start changing that. Regards, William Harris • talk • 21:22, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I have been gathering encyclopedic sources on the topic of this article to guide us in reframing the definitions and to guide us in what subtopics to emphasize. What reliable sources on the topic of intelligence do you recommend to editors of this article? See my Intelligence Citations source list for examples of useful sources. (The list itself doesn't list everything I have found recently, as I need to update the list again.) What sources have you found? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 22:36, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello WeijiBaikeBianji. If you thought that I am here to provide you with more definitions for your ever-growing and endless collection, then you are mistaken. Imagine a time when you have collected every definition on the planet - and new ones keep being published once you have - what do you intend to do with them, invite editors to review about 20 pages of definitions? They are struggling with the dozen published on the page now. As for the standard of the current sage advice - for example that intelligence is "good sense, practical sense" - that is absolutely useless to a reader. Regards, William Harris • talk • 01:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I haven't put any of the current definitions in the article, and there are certainly too many so far. But it will be reliable sources that guide us about what to include and what to trim from this article. I've mostly just watched this article for a long time, editing it only a little so far. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello WeijiBaikeBianji. It would appear that you and I are the only two people on this talk page - at this time - that are willing to say something about this matter. My interest is that I have been doing some editing on Dog behavior which got me thinking about animal intelligence, a search on that term redirects users to Animal cognition, which was poorly defined and we see the confusion between what is intelligence and what is cognition straight away. I concur that reliable sources must be used. I have no citations in mind and was proposing a framework that might guide the decision on a definition by others. On further reading, what I was proposing is similar to the second sentence of the article, however that has no citation and is not repeated or elaborated on further in the article - someone in the past has just dropped it where it now sits. When you are ready to propose something please let my know by calling my username William Harris on this page, as I have no special interest in this article and do not have a watch in place on it. I will lend support to a proposal to make changes based on reliable sources, and I would recommend some bold editing by you in the meantime! Regards, William Harris • talk • 09:47, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Section: Culture's influence on intelligence (second paragraph needs work)

Intelligence and culture is most widely studied in humans. There are not any known studies that exam the culture and intelligence of non-human or plant life in the same way. These are psychological terms that are most easily identified in humans. ----The previous statement needs editing and to be removed. There are several such studies of culture in animals such as primates and crowes. Ones that investigate the conception and transmission of learned skills. ie. Tool making.

The second paragraph is quoted above. The bold remarks were added on 22:57, July 15, 2015‎ by 24.89.93.170 I've created a welcoming talk page for this IP user, and asked him to join us in rewriting the paragraph, as well as suggesting registering an account. (all this after removing the request for improvement from the article. — Neonorange (talk) 06:07, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

The entire article needs a lot of work, and gathering current, reliable, secondary sources and then improving the article based on those sources would be a big help to the project. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 14:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Well, that, too. But let's not scare new editors! How about working on a framework on which to hang the fruits of that search? — Neonorange (talk) 15:06, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

As someone said above (more than two years ago) that entire section read like somoene's paper in university. Better delete the whole thing and start from scratch than try to rescue a misguided personal essay that never belonged here in the first place. If you stop and think about it, the section, if it belonged at all, would have been as a subsection of Human intelligence, not as subtopic of the general subject, which covers everything from AI to animals. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 05:06, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

"Intelligence"

This article needs more details. Its main weakness is that it does not reflect the various types of intelligences that exist or how they are measured.

References

Baş, G., & Beyhab, Ö. (2017). Effects of multiple intelligences supported project-based learning on students’ achievement levels and attitudes towards English lesson. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2(3), 365-386.

Gardner, H. (2018). Multiple approaches to understanding. In Contemporary Theories of Learning (pp. 129-138). New York, NY: Routledge.

Martin, J. (2018). Profiting from multiple intelligences in the workplace. New York, NY: Routledge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isabella De Marchena (talk • contribs) 17:06, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

g-factor

"Studies have shown that g is responsible for 47% of the individual variance in cognitive ability measures in primates and between 55% and 60% of the variance in mice. These values are similar to the accepted variance in IQ explained by g in humans (40-50%)." This statement is risible. g-factor is an abstraction, it no more is responsible for variance than the lines representing roads on a map are responsible for traffic accidents. Correlation is not causation and the map is not the territory. The g-factor is not a concrete measurable. I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be used (where it is appropriate), just that if it is appropriate here, then the reason should be made clear. That is, aside from one more measure of IQ, what does it bring to the discussion? (In point of fact, the Wiki. article on g-factor claims it is both a measure of both general (cognitive) intelligence which interacts with narrow skill competence AND contrarily that it the best measure of competence but that specific aptitude tests do not add to predictive ability of g towards performance.) I question if g adds anything to any discussion of intelligence, but if it does a better job than IQ, then that should be made explicit. Finally, it correlates with the variation of the results BETWEEN individuals' average performance, which is quite a different thing than "individual variance".72.16.99.93 (talk) 21:49, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Race and intelligence#Requested move 4 March 2020

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Race and intelligence#Requested move 4 March 2020. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 04:38, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Title description

Intelligence as a 'mental' faculty doesn't seem appropriate as more and more intelligence is becoming non-biological. The point here is, the word 'mental' hints at possession of a brain. Intelligence on a macro scale should be seen decoupled from biological entities. "Computational ability" might be a better description under the title. Anishgk (talk) 04:02, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Cognitive Process

A more detailed description of the cognitive process associated with human intelligence could help expand on what intelligence looks like. It might help to distinguish the difference with human intelligence and non-human intelligence. Dariamaponte (talk) 22:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence

Inclusion of emotional and social intelligence offers more insight into the idea of human intelligence. This section looks into other theories of intelligence and discusses where the general population's view on intelligence stands. This expands on the ideas of intelligence previously stated within this article. Dariamaponte (talk) 03:52, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

"Shabee Ahmad" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Shabee Ahmad. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 18#Shabee Ahmad until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 19:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Citations needed

I put CN-tags in a few paragraphs where some sentences were unreferenced. If anyone is a major contributor to this article, please add appropriate sources to missing locations. This is vital to get this article to good status. Wretchskull (talk) 09:55, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

In international documents and legislation

At the present stage, it should be noted that there are generally accepted formulations: in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, WHO) - intellectual functions (code b117), mental functions (b110-b139, b140-189); in ISO - mental load, the intensity of mental load, mental stress, negative consequences of mental stress, mental stress. It should be noted that in addition to the traditional direction of "mental health", WHO has proclaimed "brain health" - a new and developing concept that covers the development of the nervous system, its plasticity, functioning and recovery throughout life. In the Russian segment: in the Civil Code of Russia - the "results of intellectual activity, creative work"; in the Labour Code - "intellectual product". Noophelia 2.0 (talk) 11:08, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

References

Towards a GA nomination

This is not a good article nomination. It is an area for seeking improvements working towards this. Why has this article been delisted as aa good article? AnotherEditor144 ^{talk contribs} 17:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

"Smartest person" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Smartest woman" listed at Redirects for discussion

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adding links in the section See also

(I do not have my account details with me, so I can not edit the protected article...

• social intelligence
• do not confuse with the notion of intelligence services, or also with technology intelligence

--92.184.116.210 (talk) 15:25, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Dead link

Hi, I am a new editor so can't edit this page and notice this link "History of Influences in the Development of Intelligence Theory and Testing" is not found.DannyHatcher (talk) 15:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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English

Nnnnnn 2402:3A80:15BE:B3AC:0:38:967:2D01 (talk) 09:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Citation and paraphrasing

This is my first post, I am still learning. Please bear with me. For the citation valentitheme.com/classic/words-an-astronaut/, the source seems unreliable. There are several sections between the wiki article page, and this citation, mirrors each other word for word. I do not know which came first, as the valenti article does not have a date stamp. The sections that I noticed were the same between the article and the wiki page are the Plant Section, first line "plants should also be classified as intelligent based on their ability to sense and model external and internal environments and adjust their morphology, physiology and phenotype...", and the Nonhuman animal section with the line "Non-human animals particularly noted and studied for their intelligence include chimpanzees, bonobos (notably the language-using Kanzi) and other great apes, dolphins, elephants and to some extent parrots, rats and ravens." This is where the source is cited, and it plagiarizes the source word for word. What is the correct thing to do in this situation? Also please forgive my poor wikicode Joyb3 (talk) 21:37, 18 May 2022 (UTC)