how they interact with people

By their actions

I judge a person based on their compassion and imagination. Intelligence is fairly cheap compared to wisdom.

Not by the validity of their opinions, but by the depth of their reasoning.

this with the addition of "do they have common sense?"

By how ideologically similar they are to me.

Quote from: Verbatim on March 09, 2016, 01:50:23 AM

By how ideologically similar they are to me.

But prehistoric is a fucking moron.

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Also this infers that a person of intelligence is incapable of disagreeing with you, and that a sheep who blindly follows anything you say is somehow intelligent.

I'm being facetious.

I don't, really. For whatever reason I've always had trouble with that. I guess it's because I can't just look at a person and make a call unless it's already blatantly obvious.

I look at the ups, and I look at the downs of every person I meet. But I can never point at how intelligent they are because intelligence is hard to categorize into just a broad category of high or low. Instead, I see not how intelligent they are, but where their intelligence fits.