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John Homan wrote: To me intelligence has >nothing to do with social perceptions, acquired knowledge, opinion or >attitude. What it means to me is the ability to interpret and correlate >disparate information, and with itextrapolate new and original thought >and ideas. So that's a subjective opinion, to you, and it says that intelligence only has one meaning which is the one which cancels out > >all the garbage we see when >people try to quantify the artistic value of a painting or define the >taste of a wine? > Frankly I'm not interested in QUANTIFYING anything, but in being as sure as I can that we're not excluding too much - my view is that everything is contingent - Old Chinese proverb say 'the only thing which is constant is change'. Cheers (!) Mairian ********* "To understand what I am doing, you need a third eye" ********* Mairian Corker Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies University of Central Lancashire Postal Address: 111 Balfour Road Highbury London N5 2HE U.K. Minicom/TTY +44 [0]171 359 8085 Fax +44 [0]870 0553967 Typetalk (voice) +44 [0]800 515152 (and ask for minicom/TTY number) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%