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Thursday, September 14. 2017

What is "worthy"?


Assistant Village Idiot, obviously a highly intelligent and educated person, wonders whether IQ is an overvalued trait.


It seems to me that the social value of different personality traits, behaviors, and accomplishments varies widely across cultures and subcultures, and certainly across history. 


I'm not sure what "worthy" means, though. Christian praise songs say "Only You are worthy." All I can think of about "worthy" is worthy to marry one of my splendid kids.  That is a high bar in many areas, I'm afraid.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:09 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thanks for the link. I give some background on what historical cultures valued, and welcome speculation where we are going.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-09-14 20:34 (Reply)
"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think." We've known this for 25 years. Longer.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-02-03
#2 Ken Mitchell on 2017-09-14 21:15 (Reply)
Basically IQ is a measurement of how much you remember from school, not of ability or skill. I know a man who passed a difficult 8 hour licensing state test but wasn't able to do the work he held a license for. I asked him how this was and he told me that he was good at taking tests. I think IQ tests are like that.
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”....C. S. Lewis
#3 Dave C. on 2017-09-15 13:46 (Reply)

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