Summary : When Isaac Asimov was in the army, he received the kind of aptitude test and scored 160, against a normal of 100. All his life he's been registering scores like that. He has a pleasant feeling that he's highly intelligent. However, he does not think that such scores simply mean that he is very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests but in other cases he is not intelligent because he cant fix his car by himself. He must go to an auto-repair man. He think that he cant answer the questions if auto-repair man , or a carpenter, or a farmer makes them. He can answer only those questions which have made by an academician. Therefore, he thinks that his intelligence is not absolute one, rather it is designed by function of the society. His auto-repair man told him a joke- a deaf and dumb man went to a hardware shop and , by showing the fingers and hammering upon them, demanded nails. The shop keeper first showed a hammer but the man shook his head and pointed to the two finger. The shopkeeper gave him nails. He asked - what would a blind man have done for asking a scissors? Asimov gave the answer immediately -scissoring motions of first two fingers,but the auto-repair man said he would have asked by his voice . He remarked that, being highly educated, he would not be smart to give the right answer.
Interpretation : It is reasonable for the writer to ask the question - what is the intelligence, anyway ? Intelligence is measured by an academician by arranging questions by the academician himself. In real sense of meaning of intelligence , he must know all and must give answers to all questions asked by all kinds of people in different positions and professions.
Critical thinking : It is true that intelligence tests are designed and asked by academicians. I think hardly anybody has alternative person or body for intelligence tests. Traditional concept of 'intelligence' is that the person being tested knows all kind of subjects and can give answers to all kinds of people in different professions and can do all things by himself. Asimov arise the question and , i think ,all reader would become self-conscious and realize that intelligence in not absolute one, that is just a relative ,because a person , supposed to be intelligent , can give answers to one kind of subject , not to all subject . An intelligent person is quick-mined ,clever and smart , quickly-grasping and quickly-responding person.
Assimilation : Once i went to the headmaster of the school where i had studied myself, and requested for an admission of a student in call VI. The headmaster asked me- how is the student like? 'intelligent' the word came out of my mouth, without considering the intention behind the question . He immediately presented the counterargument and said that there are three kinds of people- intelligent, hard-working , and dull-mined. I was bought to change my word because the student was hard-working , not intelligent , true to the word . I thing 'intelligent' is a divine gift which is possessed by a small number of people.
Interpretation : It is reasonable for the writer to ask the question - what is the intelligence, anyway ? Intelligence is measured by an academician by arranging questions by the academician himself. In real sense of meaning of intelligence , he must know all and must give answers to all questions asked by all kinds of people in different positions and professions.
Critical thinking : It is true that intelligence tests are designed and asked by academicians. I think hardly anybody has alternative person or body for intelligence tests. Traditional concept of 'intelligence' is that the person being tested knows all kind of subjects and can give answers to all kinds of people in different professions and can do all things by himself. Asimov arise the question and , i think ,all reader would become self-conscious and realize that intelligence in not absolute one, that is just a relative ,because a person , supposed to be intelligent , can give answers to one kind of subject , not to all subject . An intelligent person is quick-mined ,clever and smart , quickly-grasping and quickly-responding person.
Assimilation : Once i went to the headmaster of the school where i had studied myself, and requested for an admission of a student in call VI. The headmaster asked me- how is the student like? 'intelligent' the word came out of my mouth, without considering the intention behind the question . He immediately presented the counterargument and said that there are three kinds of people- intelligent, hard-working , and dull-mined. I was bought to change my word because the student was hard-working , not intelligent , true to the word . I thing 'intelligent' is a divine gift which is possessed by a small number of people.
what does asimov mean when he says his intelligence 'is not absolute but is a function of the society i live in '
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