I'm just not smart enough

again

but I am an effective engineer

you need a specific type of intelligence

but also only average

intelligence isn't a monolith

there are WAY smarter people than me in my field

and they completey eclipse me effortlessly

It requires different intelligences to be an engineer, scientist, businessman, etc.

Intelligence isn't just 1 thing

the science doesn't su pport that. while people have stronger and weaker areas, almost nobody is say an 80 linguistically and 160 mathematically

they might be 160 mathematically and only 140 linguistically

what

there isn't different types of IQ

the stereotype of "physicist who can't spell" isn't really true

i never said it is

some people are smarter than others, objectively

there are different components that make up an IQ test, have you ever done one?

But again, you're treating intelligence as if it's one thing

"how good you are at memorizing equations"

or "calculating big numbers"

that's not what IQ trests at all

when that's not the case

but it's a proxy for that

have you ever sat an IQ test?

you mean take one?

no i haven't

yes

well it is in some ways exactly what you say it isn't

it's made up of several different factors, such as linguistic ability, spatial reasoning ability

and they're very highly correlated

linguistic ability

can you specify

so for example, I don't remember exactly since it was 10 years ago but 2 tasks are a vocabulary test, and another is spatial reasoning. I'll explain

they'll ask you to explain the definition of increasingly uncommon words

ok

starts with like dog and cat or whatever, goes up to "unstoppable" or "ubiquitous", and on and on

tell me, if you're a farmer who's never seen a school, how would you learn these increasingly uncommon words?

you have no incentive, and no way of learning it

spatial reasoning is rearranging blocks to fit a given pattern

yeah vocabulary is a poor measure of any sort of "general" intelligence imo