Current Events > Do you think you can usually tell a person's intelligence level by how well

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...the speak usually? have heard varying opinions on this

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i dun think that this here question is a good indicaturr of a persins intelligince

Nah. People talk differently in casual vs. professional settings.

Also, a classic example is a genius who speaks poor English because of unfamiliarity with the language, but is some kind of super-scientist in French.

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i know articulate morons and less than articulate but bright and deep thinking people

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Someone who doesnt speak or spell correctly is an indicator of stupidity but correct language and spelling isnt an indicator of intelligence as those are subjects that should be mastered by the third grade

So it's a loaded question but generally no

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stuttering aside, I do feel like its a sign of lack of education.

What they're speaking holds a lot more weight. I would think much more highly of someone who uses simple words to describe complex subjects than a person who uses complex words to describe simple subjects

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Yes.

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brestugo posted...

Yes.

you think so? but most of the posters in this topic disagreed.

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Generally yes, but there are plenty of exceptions

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Even for informal settings, there's knowing which rules to consistently break for the sake of brevity, humor, or local dialect, concise transfer of information, wordplay, things like that. Some people just have a specific issue with speech and can still be bright, of course, but I've found that a common flag for stupid people is that they can't communicate their ideas well, because they use too many vague notions that are assumed to be universally known. There's a kind of intellectual empathy that they lack. You'll see it on forums, too.

"You know what I mean."

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intellectual empathy? what do you mean by that?

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JebronLames posted...

intellectual empathy? what do you mean by that?

The ability to understand what another person understands, or is capable of understanding, or, to an extent, what they might already be assumed to know.

Like, if someone asks you "hey, do you know about anime?", and you're all "Yeah man Watanabe is my weebdaddy", and they're all "yeah it's Japanese Animation, it's very serious"


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