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In to the dogpile search engine, I typed the word “Intelligence.”
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The first result I found on dogpile was for lumosity.com, a site that provides games designed to “increase your intelligence.” The Featured Game was the Speed Match game, a game where you are shown an image of a shape and then a series of images following and you have to say whether or not the images match the first image you were shown. In the description of the game, it says that it is supposed to improve your brain’s reaction time. I played the game for a little while and while I am not sure if it improved my reaction time, I did improve the longer I played the game.
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Next, I visited test-iq.com. This site offers an “American IQ Test” that features questions that put your reasoning the test. They ask questions that require you to complete a sequence of shapes and to complete a shape. They only had about 300 people on the visitor count for the day, which I found odd since it was supposedly the #1 IQ test in the country. It kind of made me wonder how many people visited the #2 IQ test in the country.
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The third entry was Intelligence as explained by Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, intelligence is an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn. What a mouth full! I could have said that intelligence is the mind’s ability to reason. Ta da! Of course, Wikipedia had to one-up me (lame). One thing that I found interesting was that they had this super long entry for intelligence…I had no idea that there was so much to intelligence. They also had several different types of intelligence, such as environmental and biological. I just never really realized how many different types of intelligence there were…hmmm….
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The fourth link took me to a online pharmacy where they were trying to sell me a product called Omega Mind, otherwise known as intelligence in a bottle. This product is designed to promote memory and intelligence as well as psychic energy (?). I thought that it was interesting that some people that intelligence can be obtained through a pill. True, it could possible increase your capacity for learning, but I highly doubt that a pill could actually give us knowledge.
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This site yet again introduced the idea that there are multiple intelligences. This site touched on Linguistic intelligence (“word smarts”), Logical-mathematical intelligence (“number/reasoning smarts”), Spatial intelligence (“picture smarts”), Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence (“body smarts”), Musical intelligence (“music smarts”), Interpersonal intelligence (“people smarts”), Intrapersonal intelligence (“self smarts”), and Naturalist intelligence (“nature smarts”). Again, I found it so interesting that there are supposedly different kinds of intelligence and kind of makes me wonder what kinds of intelligence I posses.
