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When growing up someone was smart if they 'knew rocket science' or 'were great at math' or 'knew a lot of trivia'.

Now it's almost as if 'anyone is smart' and it's undefined how to measure it.

Ie if you "guessed" that the vaccines were going to cause damage and avoided them, then you're not smart, you're just a conspiracy theorist.

When growing up someone was smart if they 'knew rocket science' or 'were great at math' or 'knew a lot of trivia'. Now it's almost as if 'anyone is smart' and it's undefined how to measure it. Ie if you "guessed" that the vaccines were going to cause damage and avoided them, then you're not smart, you're just a conspiracy theorist.

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Extrapolation of the known (facts) to derive applications previously not conceived.

I know many 'facts' and can recall them near instantaneously but that alone does not make me intelligent. It's a start but it's also where most stop.