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 Are people born smarter than others ? (16)

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Are people born smarter than others ?

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I think first you would have to define what you mean by smarter. If someone knows must really well, then it could be said that they are musically smarter than someone who doesn't know it that well. The same thing goes for any other subject. It seems like anyone could be smarter than anyone at anything

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If by "smarter" you mean IQ then, yes, there is very very little doubt--almost none, really--that some people are fortunate enough to be born with a higher Intelligent Quotient than others. At least according to how we have up till now been able to measure this alleged intelligence, which is through tests.

And yes, I will be the first to admit that most of those tests are culturally biased. And there certainly has been a great deal of controversy over them throughout history. But even without the tests, and despite the fact that psychology still sometimes struggles with a universally accepted definition of the very word "intelligence," its damn obvious that some of us are just plain smarter than others.

This can be done via hard work and study and having an education, or simply by dint of genetics, where the answer to your question is addressed. Yes..some people are born smarter than others.

The GOOD news for the people who are born somewhat "less" than intelligent, is that fairly recently (say, about a decade or so ago) we discovered a thing called "neuro-plasticity."

Which is a fancy-ass way of saying that you CAN change your brain. Increase your IQ, and yeah, even grow brain cells. That is: if you do not suffer from some sort of cognitive malady, or have undergone a Traumatic Brain Injury, which we call a TBI. Those two things CAN prevent a person from ever getting what you call "smart."

Hope this helps. And let me know if you have any more questions on the topic of innate human intelligence, or psychology. They are both in my field of study.

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Yes. Yet, as Forest Gump and his mama said, "stupid is as stupid does", regardless.

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NO ONE IS BORN SMARTER.....but some people are born with a better blueprint on how to become smarter faster than others. In other words, some people are born with a better "rig" to potentially be smarter than you if they choose to take advantage of the better rig they got.....but at birth, nobody is born smarter....

Grenache(6053) Clarified
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Let me add there's also many different kinds of "smart". When our oldest son started daycare there was another kid his age already walking, crawling, getting into everything. Our own kid needed four to five more months to start doing the equivalent. But now two years later the daycare tells us (discreetly) our boy is actually quite ahead of the other one in all the non-motor skill areas. It reminds me of the difference between a chimpanzee and a human baby whereas the chimp is actually kind of a genius as a baby, able to do all sorts of stuff the human baby is helpless to do. But given time and nurturing the human baby (usually) will far outpace the chimp in all the other areas of development we consider "smart".

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No not at all but it is the perfect talking point for Democrats to keep the blacks on the Urban Plantation and keep them voting Democrat.

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We need to look no further than Republicans and Democrats to see the huge difference in intellect.

What type of intellect does it take to think a Government can force EVERY SINGLE public school in our nation to allow boys in girls bathrooms on the say so of some child who thinks he is not the sex he was born to.

I mean COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These politicians are total FOOLS! MORONS! CONTROL FANATICS! They are either the most stupid people on Earth or they are the most dangerous people on earth.

Please stop electing these nut cases.

instig8or(3308) Disputed
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What kind of moron does it take to be so utterly selfish that they cannot tend to the needs of people who feel confused about what they identify as.

Instead of encouraging them to attend publicly funded therapy to mend their supposed 'illness', Republicans would rather a female looking like a male goes to a woman's bathroom and the women scream and run and a man looking like a woman goes to a male bathroom and gets molested.

FromWithin(8241) Disputed
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You are a fool as always. WE ARE TLKING ABOUT KIDS who have not gone through insane sex change operations and taking dangerous drugs for the rest of their lives.

It has nothing to do with therapy that they can pay for themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What kind of fool thinks dysfunctional people have no money? Mental health is very subjective with no way of making sure people would not take advantage of tax payers by living in counseling for their entire lives because they are not happy. GET REAL!

Atrag(5666) Clarified
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Atrag(5666) Clarified
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"Are [some] born smarter than others?"

Democrats!!!!! REpublicans!!!!! GGAUAUAUUUUUUGGGAAAAA!!

Would you like a cup of tea dear? Tit.

FromWithin(8241) Disputed
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I would like to have a Government not forcing their ideology on ALL Americans!

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I know....We have a freaking debate on Intellect of our species and the resident village idiot, FromWithout, is once again compelled to bring politics into it. He's so bad here he is something of a running joke, eh? Like a cartoon character.

I wish he woulda tried some of this shit when I was a Mod at DDO, and he was there. What he does is called "hijacking a post" and the first offense after a warning was a 5-day ban. Second offense was two weeks, and then if you did it again you were gone for good. He woulda been in and outta there like shit through a Goose.

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