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I personally am on the side of saying that intelligence isn't simple enough to put a high and low; it's easy to be a master mathematician and have near-flawless logic but have difficulty explaining yourself to others and appear not articulate at all, or the complete opposite, where you appear perfectly knowledgeable of the world from wordplay but could never figure out how a calculator works. And even then, that's just giving two examples of types of intelligence among many, such as being creative and being able to compose amazing music, and then those can probably be split down even further.

Of course, I'll have to assume you're trying to take an average of these, such as saying that saying that a Christmas meal tasted great, while you thought the carrots were undercooked and didn't like the type of gravy, you still thought the rest made up for it - and say that one Christmas lunch is better than another - even though the other one had better gravy, it failed in most other regards. So in a similar manner, I'll take that you're just giving what you think is the sum of all the ways in which people can show an effective mind? If so, the list would be more fair than just showing how often someone wins a debate and labelling it, "smartyness", or the like, but I still think it's deceptive to treat intelligence in this way, and don't really agree with the overall ethics of the list anyway - I've never liked things such as this being treated competitively. And not just because of how impossible it is to judge since it's a broad topic. I also dislike the atmosphere of boasting given because someone was placed high or the insult one could take from being placed low. It just seems pointless in my opinion, but if you enjoy it, feel free to continue - I'll just go by my gut instinct and avoid the topic next time.

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