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:{{ Exercise | Awareness - classification }} Classify Edison's questions. | :{{ Exercise | Awareness - classification }} Classify Edison's questions. | ||
{{ Teaser }} Social engineers have been obsessed with measuring intelligence. They want to improve the human condition by breeding smarter people. It is a trope in popular fiction because it mirrors truth. | {{ Teaser | }} Social engineers have been obsessed with measuring intelligence. They want to improve the human condition by breeding smarter people. It is a trope in popular fiction because it mirrors truth. | ||
This challenge is not about debating the pros and cons of such endeavors, but in exploring the kinds of intelligence as used in Acton literature. You will be exposed to other definitions of intelligence, and you may choose to use those frameworks in other conversations. For convenience we will speak of information, skill, and ability as our classification of intelligence types. | This challenge is not about debating the pros and cons of such endeavors, but in exploring the kinds of intelligence as used in Acton literature. You will be exposed to other definitions of intelligence, and you may choose to use those frameworks in other conversations. For convenience we will speak of information, skill, and ability as our classification of intelligence types. | ||
