Q73217

Prompt: Intelligence

An aptitude is a distinctive inborn capability to do a certain kind of work. Aptitudes may be physical or mental. Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways differing, views of human mental ability. However, intelligence quotient sees intelligence as being a single quantifiable characteristic affecting all mental ability, while aptitude breaks mental ability down into many different characteristics which are supposed to be more or less independent of each other. However, a casual analysis of any group of test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated. Aptitude is better applied intra-individually to decide what tasks a given individual is more skilled at performing. Inter-individual aptitude differences are typically not very significant due to IQ differences. Of course this assumes individuals have not already been pre-screened for aptitude through some other process such as SAT scores, GRE scores, or finishing medical school.

References: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/aptitude.htm

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