alt Hacker NewsI'm a layman to this jargon, but are 'crystallized intelligence' and 'emotional intelligence' in any actual sense 'intelligence'? I can't see how these terms mean anything other than judgement, experience, maturity etc, which are already good enough labels for this stuff. Can anyone explain what these flashier new terms offer over them?
They offer the dilution of the word "intelligence" so that we can pretend ever more strongly that it doesn't really exist as a concept, and therefore eventually stop measuring it (especially across populations)