From: d@d.d   
      
   Hello...   
      
      
   About smartness and how to measure it..   
      
   I think that in IQ tests smartness is measured by a level of difficulty,   
   so you have to solve a certain level of difficulty. So it is relative to   
   a certain level of difficulty of the IQ tests such as those of Mensa or   
   such. But i think if we are smart and we lower the level of difficulty   
   by for example easying the understanding of knowledge and science and   
   technics, so i think that we are going to become more smart and more   
   capable at smartness. This is why i also say the following:   
      
   Now today i will do political philosophy about Pedagogy..   
      
   Can we ask the question of: What must be an efficient Pedagogy today?,   
   i think that we have to notice that the exponential progress   
   and the law of accelerating returns are influencing Pedagogy,   
   because today we have to be more efficient at learning,   
   because i think that the level of sophistication of today   
   is much more than the past and i think that this has   
   as a cause that we have to be much more sophisticated than   
   the past to be able to be efficient learning, i think that this is   
   the "first" requirement of today Pedagogy, and more than that   
   we have to define the other main parts of what is it to be efficient   
   learning, i mean what are the main parts of "efficient learning" that   
   have a great importance  ? take for example choosing the right tools for   
   learning , so the first question of how to choose the right tools for   
   learning is to know how to choose the right tools, not only that but to   
   be able for the tool to be the right tool, the learning of the right   
   tool must be made more "easier",  now you are noticing   
   that the parts of efficient learning are becoming more clear,   
   this is why i said before in my political philosophy   
   the following that permits you to understand more what i am saying:   
      
   What is happening in my brain ?   
      
   I will speak more about me so that you understand my way of doing since   
   it is also like my philosophy, to be more smart you have to be capable   
   of reducing efficiently "complexity" so that to be efficient and so that   
   to be more successful, but how can you do it ? you have to be able   
   to know about the steps that guides you into the right direction,   
   first i will speak about my way so that you understand me better,   
   first step you have to be able to "prioritize" efficiently, because   
   to be able to be successful you have to prioritize, so look  for example   
   at me, i have decided to "study" more and to study more "efficiently" so   
   that to be more successful, but this is not "sufficient" to know,   
   because to be able to be efficient at reducing complexity you have to be   
   able to be efficiently selective of your knowledge, and this efficiently   
     "selective" has to adhere in its turn to the process of being   
   efficient at reducing "complexity", so you have to be able to select   
   "efficiently" "efficient" knowledge that is more "easy" to learn so that   
   to reduce complexity, thus you have to be able to ask "questions" to   
   this or that right persons to be able to be efficient at selecting your   
   "knowledge", next step you have to be "tenacity" at studying efficiently   
   and you have to study more and more and you have to ask questions to   
   your professors and next step after you have been able to learn more and   
   more you have to be able at being efficient at "reusability" of your   
   efficient knowledge and this is a very important step , so don't neglect   
   efficient "reusability" of your knowledge, this is also the steps that i   
   have followed and i have also used my "smartness" to be more efficient.   
      
   Also i said the following about smartness:   
      
   I think there is a diversity in the set that we call people, but   
   we have to understand that to be able to classify them by smartness,   
   we have to understand that there is not only "IQ"  as we know it   
   that can measure smartness, because i say that there is a missing   
   important part, this is why i say the way of measuring by IQ is still   
   fuzzy, because i say that statistically we can see that a missing   
   important part is that a human can be genetically like more articulated   
   in his thinking and that is like more constancy of more calculations   
   and/or more constancy of more logic and more constancy of more   
   rationality, it is like being like a computer that calculates more and   
   that is logical more and that is rationality more, and this how i am in   
   real life, and this is also the missing part of smartness that is not   
   measured by IQ because it is more dynamic.   
      
      
   Thank you,   
   Amine Moulay Ramdane.   
      
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