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Originally Posted by mugaliens
I believe a perfectly designed IQ test should only measure the innate part of one's intelligence, rather than be muddied up by measuring knowledge.
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There's another option you skipped: that they measure one's ability to make decisions and reach conclusions. This is independent of most knowledge, but can be contributed to both by your biological starting point and by the logical skills you practice in life. To the extent that such decision-making is a learnable skill, I don't know of any way to separate the learning & practice from the biology. But that is what intelligence tests measure, and can be and has been separated from other areas of general knowledge/education.
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Originally Posted by mugaliens
the first 1,000 photographs I took were horrible. That was my innate ability... However, as I continued to take pictures... my photos began to take on a life of their own... That's the learned ability.
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You were using intelligence when you learned that skill. Less intelligence would have meant less ability to learn the skill.