> Across every known measurement, human (and animal) intelligence is convergent. Being better at one thing correlates with being better at another thing.

LOL. Human (and animal!) intelligence is notoriously jagged. We're all basically idiots except for very narrow areas where we focus.

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howunfortunate an hour ago | parent [-]

This is simply untrue. I tried to think of an animal example so I could give a concession, and there just...aren't any.

Smarter just means smarter.

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hennell 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

As anyone who's needed to provide IT support to a doctor, lawyer, lauded academic or host of otherwise "smart professionals", can assert, you can be very very smart in one area and very stupid in another.

See for example Paul Framton https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/30/physicist-mode...

	▲	howunfortunate 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ah I see. This is the classic error in mixing up knowledge / experience and intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to quickly process, understand, learn, and use information. It does not imply having already been exposed to any given information. A smart doctor may have terrible computer skills. But this is from lack of experience and interest, not lack of ability to learn how to use computers. But take that smart doctor, and a relatively dumb person who is equally inexperienced with computers. Now give them a month and incentive to learn computers. The doctor will learn much more; that's intelligence.