Sara516
December 30, 2011, 3:56am
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Re: Intelligence
Princessjojo, Knowledge and intelligence are not the same and no they are not correlated. As an example. I would by far have the most knowledge on Afghanistan, Sudan, Peacekeeping, conflict resolution and good governance in post conflict situations on this website. Why? Because this has been my job for a good 5 or more years. I lived in this countries, worked in the field. I know more about all of this due to these personal experiences. But does that make me more intelligent than the rest of the posters? Nope.
A good knowledge base has nothing to do with intelligence. There are posters here who have a strong background in IT which I do not have. Does that mean they have more knowledge on the subject matter? Yes. Does that mean by default they are more intelligent than me because they have this knowledge? Nope.
So what exactly is intelligence?
I used to be into using big words and stuff but I realize now it’s much more important to get your point across in a way that everyone can understand it instead of making them feel alienated.