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I was thinking about this issue in the past and I came to the conslusion that what we perceive as "intelligence" is deeply flawed concept, for many reasons. For example, many people who struggle with intelligence tests are just people who have problems with attention.
Additionally, there seems to be very little correlatiom between "intelligence" and understanding of how the world works.
I know some people who are good at maths but have horrible brain-dead political views. nazis had intelligent generals. I also know someone who worked as a juror, company manager and government official at different stages of her life, but still acts very irrational in her everyday life.
At the same time I know people who do not have reputation of being the most intelligent, but they have a very good understanding of social problems, they are "street smart", enphatetic towards others and critical towards what they see in their everyday life. I could argue that they act more rationally than the people from the group above, even though they are not IT professionals or trained academically.
In my opinion, this line of reasoning leads nowhere. (:
Fully agree. I'd like to add, knowledge requires learning. And learning requires work, no matter how intelligent we are (or think we are).