Is simply memorizing thousands of facts, terms, etc. proof of intelligence?

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Citrix
isnt that what doctors do?

Q: What do you call a doctor who graduates dead last in his class?

A: Doctor

 

[her209]

So the next question is, do you memorize the process of applying memorized facts as well?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: her209
So the next question is, do you memorize the process of applying memorized facts as well?

Can you type on your keyboard without looking at the keys?

 

[vood0g]

can a person be intelligent without being able to memorize stuff?

 

[Kipper]

What is "intelligence?"

Please answer that first.

 

[moshquerade]

no, there are plenty of educated idiots.

 

[nakedfrog]

That's a tricky question. But you did that on purpose, didn't you?

 

[Chadder007]

Knowledge ....Yes
Intellegence....NO

 

[RaDragon]

The ability for you to store information and then retrieve it without the use of machinery is good for you! Information can range from songs/music, to words/numbers, to works of art, etc.

Intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge -- so if you only memorize facts, etc. for the sake of knowing, and not using, then, you're not very intelligent.

[ e d i t ]

<--- knows a lot of "useless" information... /me not very intelligent

 

[Cobalt]

No, but being able to interpret, act, manipulate, etc, those terms/facts/etc is a sign of intelligence.

 

[Kelemvor]

EVer play D&D? That's why there is INTELLIGENCE combined with WISDOM. You can be intelligent without being very wise. THink of Intelligence as knowing facts from a book or other source and Wisdom as knowing what to do with the facts once you have them and use them in the real world.

 

[shuan24]

last time I checked, village idiots have a hard time memorizing thousands of facts....I can see a correlation here...

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

It's proof of memorization skills. Once you start to understand and be able to use the information thats when intelligence comes into play.

IMO some extremly smart people would never be able to just memorize thousands of facts, terms etc...

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
intelligence is knowing how to use knowledge

But isn't that itself memorized information?

 

[thirdlegstump]

No. It's the ability to um..what's that freakin word....oh yea, APPLY that knowledge into working stuff that determines one's intelligence.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
No. It's the ability to um..what's that freakin word....oh yea, APPLY that knowledge into working stuff that determines one's intelligence.

But the "process of applying knowledge" is itself memorized.

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Dari
Those that remember everything, learn nothing.

How else would you learn from the past if you didn't remember it (ie History)?

My history teacher had a rebuke to that as well. In case you learned history, we definately have repeated things, despite learning things from the past.

 

[Aosh]

Intelligence I feel can be measured in two ways:

A) How FAST you can learn new material
B) How well you can apply the knowledge

If a person can memorize a book after reading it once, I will not deny that is an intelligent person. But memorizing a mountain of knowledge over a very long period of time is something anyone with discipline can do.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: deathkoba
No. It's the ability to um..what's that freakin word....oh yea, APPLY that knowledge into working stuff that determines one's intelligence.

But the "process of applying knowledge" is itself memorized.

Not really. If you know what has to be done in certain cases, then yeah I guess you can say that. But intelligence is when you're applying that knowledge to a problem that you don't know where to start from, then analyzing it and using the knowledge to do certain things.

You can apply the knowledge you know towards a 100 different problems in a 100 different ways. That's a greater showing of intelligence.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: deathkoba
No. It's the ability to um..what's that freakin word....oh yea, APPLY that knowledge into working stuff that determines one's intelligence.

But the "process of applying knowledge" is itself memorized.

Not really. If you know what has to be done in certain cases, then yeah I guess you can say that. But intelligence is when you're applying that knowledge to a problem that you don't know where to start from, then analyzing it and using the knowledge to do certain things.

You can apply the knowledge you know towards a 100 different problems in a 100 different ways. That's a greater showing of intelligence.

I'll accept that. Sort of like saying, you're not really a chef if you're just following someone elses instructions (even if you're recalling the recipe from memory).