From: Petter Wingren-Rasmussen (petterwr@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 03:28:43 MST
On 2/25/09, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Petter Wingren-Rasmussen <petterwr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is freely from the foreword of the swedish translation
> > of "Check your own I.Q." by H.J.Eysenck.
> >
> > He claims that intelligence is dependent on three different
> > factors:
> > 1. Mental quickness.
> > 2. Carefulness (ie lack of mistakes made).
> > 3. Endurance.
>
> By this criteria my calculator is a million times smarter than I am.
I'm not sure of what you mean here, maybe we define mental quickness
differently.
Your calculator surely cant be better than you at pattern recognition for
instance.
I see that as one aspect of mental quickness.
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