People good at math = smart ones?

Seriously now.

The only intelligent people I know are the ones that are good in math. Every professor I had in my life, either in anything math-related or not, was (I eventually got to know) good in math.

So this brings me one old idea, that isn't as wrong as people thought. IQ tests really tell how intelligent someone is, it doesn't matter what other people say about the existence of other "intelligences", it's bullshit. The only intelligent conversations I ever had were with people with high IQ. So fuck the other ones.

Do you people agree?


PS: What do you guys think about this idea: an alien invasion that tests everyone's IQ and kills everyone below 120?

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"Cause I don't, those stupid fags make some drowing that they, and the only other - instructed by them - persons, apreciate."

Of course modern art fails, all those people have low artistic intelligence.  It still doesn't disprove the fact that creativity is a form of intelligence.  Not just in art either.  In music, and hell even science and engineering, creativity plays an important part and IQ tests don't measure it.

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"That isn't intelligence, it takes concentration. Any animal can do stuff like that, that's not a human privillege, therefore, not intelligence."

Intelligence isn't limited to humans.  Nearly anything with a brain has at least a minimal amount of intelligence.  But there is no way that you can claim a guitar great like Joe Satriani isn't more intelligent when it comes to controlling his movements in an intricate way.  It's not just concentration, its concentration on a great many things at once.  Computing more information in an instant than another person can.

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"Ok, now maybe you said something that I can consider being valid. But as you are saying: "geniuses" are incredibly interesting to talk to (taking away the loosely stupid ones) and "non-geniuses" are stupid (again, taking away the exceptions)"

Yes of course many geniuses (read: IQ above 130~) are interesting to talk to.  But my point was that many people who register as below average intelligence on an IQ test are not only more interesting than those geniuses, but they're more successful in life because their intelligence is high in other ways.

IQ tests are somewhat relevant because they do give a rough idea of someones general intelligence.  However, they can't account for individuals who simply have a weakness in the narrow field that it tests in.

IQ tests fail.