GPA does not determine intelligence level.
Test scores do not determine intelligence level.
From my experience, decisions made with available knowledge is a prime candidate for determining intelligence level.
The whole concept of a "person knowing what they don't know" is more of wisdom than intelligence.
It is also extremely difficult in describing my own personal feats without sounding egotistical, but I'll let my hobbies and interests speak for themselves:
- I'm an active player of DnD 3.5, Pathfinder, and Dark Heresy (Pen and Paper RPGs)
- I'm an active amateur Astronomer (Light pollution in Miami is absolutely terrible however)
- I own copies of Isaac Newton's The Principia and Albert Einstein's Papers of Relativity
- I read Physics books written by Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson
- I'm a walking encyclopedia on PC hardware and troubleshooting
- I find it fascinating to create mathematical models of real-world scenarios (I've done some describing MMO raiding before, when I was younger)
But, in the nitty gritty sense, intelligence cannot be set into stone. We know so little how the brain works that the terms "intellect", "intelligence", etc can be so inter-twined that anybody can have a vast amount of intellect somewhere. But, what are the costs?
Let's take this in a Dungeons & Dragons sense here.
Strength: 10
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 10
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 10
That's an average person. Well rounded in everything that can relate in life.
However, what happens if the intelligence attribute is heavily maximized while minimizing the others (term is called min/maxing in the DnD/RPG world)
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 8
Intelligence: 20
Wisdom: 8
Charisma: 8
Again, in DnD terms, a 20 intelligence is essentially Einstein level. Any attribute that is below a 9 takes penalties whenever said person uses that attribute. For example: The absent minded professor. High intelligence, low wisdom.
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