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It’s mostly cope in my view. The people who push the idea that there are other forms of intelligence tend to be either teachers who want to believe that the dumb kids aren’t actually dumb, and the dumb ones who don’t want to believe that they’re not just as smart as the science math and logic leaders. But it’s not true. You can’t be smart about feelings or art or nature or smarts without using the same pattern recognition and extrapolation skills that the STEM people use. You might, by temperament, aim it at different problems. Patrick Mahomes is aiming his logic and pattern recognition at football where Elon Musk is aiming it at rockets and drones and flying cars. It’s the same brain, the same processes, but one guy is throwing to Kelcie and the other is building flying cars.
But the point is, that is what we measure and ultimately what matters.
There are savants who are STEM experts but cannot socialize or understand art, even when it clearly limits their QOL. Maybe their brains are technically wired better, so if we just teach or condition them right they could be therapy or art experts too, whereas we could not turn a mediocre therapist or artist into a STEM expert. But until we do that, their intelligence is for all intents different than someone who’s good at STEM but also socialization, or someone who’s charismatic but otherwise stupid.
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