Stages of intelligence

25Aug07
  1. Certainty
  2. Uncertainty
  3. Certainty about uncertainty
  4. Uncertainty about uncertainty
  5. Certainty about the uncertainty of uncertainty

I’m not sure if that pattern continues (there’s a tower law in there after stage 5, I think). My data suggests ‘achievers’ inhabit the odd-numbered stages; ‘thinkers’ and ‘feelers’ inhabit the even-numbered ones.

Make sense?

3 Responses to “Stages of intelligence”


  1. 1 SMA Posted August 27th, 2007 - 3:57 pm

    interesting… why ‘intelligence’ and not ‘maturity’ or smth?
    :)

  2. 2 a. Posted August 27th, 2007 - 4:12 pm

    sorry, that was me up there…computer sharing issues.

  3. 3 Uzair Posted August 27th, 2007 - 6:53 pm

    Well, you could argue maturity is an increasing function of intelligence or that there’s a correlation there, but maturity is more subjective than intelligence.

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I think of ‘maturity’ (as commonly understood) as conformity, predictability and, quite often, mediocrity. And that can occur through intelligence and self-discipline or stupidity and hesitance/self-consciousness.

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