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    1) Isaac Asimov scored highly on aptitude tests in the army but recognized his auto-repair man was smarter than him in mechanics. 2) The auto-repair man told Asimov a joke about a deaf-mute man asking for nails at a store that challenged Asimov's assumptions. 3) This experience highlighted for Asimov that intelligence is not absolute and one can be outsmarted by less educated people in areas of expertise outside one's own.

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    Tagulao 1

    Leelan Tagulao

    Mrs. Schenck

    English 11A / P.6

    9 October 2018

    Intelligence

    When given any sort of test, it is usually based on the criteria of how one person knows

    the subject and how it helps in the real world. Intelligence is behind how people comprehend

    their own surroundings and it is the push that allows any being to solve anything. Not many

    people understand what intelligence really is, such as one individual named Isaac Asimov, who

    asks the question, “what is intelligence, anyway?” and what is the reasoning behind it. In

    Asimob’s article, he explains his own experience with certain situations involving intelligence

    and how intelligence works with others in different levels. With his own experience, Asimov

    expresses how he perceives intelligence through his explicit and implicit inferences that he has

    drawn up that made him conclude what he knows about intelligence.

    Throughout all of his life, Asimov usually receives high test scores, giving him the

    feeling that he was exceptionally smarter than the majority, in which he is not afraid to admit.

    When Asimov was in the army, he “...received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and,

    against a normal 11, scored 160” (Asimov Paragraph 1). Asimov was much more sharpened

    individual compared to the other soldiers and his intelligence was considered to be very

    significant around the base. However, when Asimov compares his intellect to his auto-repair

    man, in which he presumes is significantly less smarter than him, is much more meticulous,

    insightful, and professional when he “[explores] [the] vitals” of his car “and [listens] to his

    pronouncements as though they were divine oracles…”(Paragraph 3). Even when someone is
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    smarter than another person does not necessarily imply that they are smarter in all aspects in life,

    as proven by Asimov himself, which he explains that his auto-repair man is substantially smarter

    in terms of knowing the mechanics of a vehicle. Intelligence is not rated by how a well a person

    knows general knowledge, but by what they are experienced and interested in.

    Considering back to Asimob’s auto-repair man, he was much more clever than what

    some may perceive him, even Asimov himself. Asimov was presented with a joke from the auto-

    repair man of deaf-and-mute man who went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. To how

    what he needed he acted as if he was hammering a nail, but to show that his attention and need

    were for some nails, in which he was given the nails at the end. Thereafter, a blind man came in

    and asked for scissors. The auto-repair man poses Asimov a question about how did the blind

    man go about asking for what he needed. Asimov answers in doing a scissoring motion, when

    the more logical answer is simply asking the clerk for scissors. Asimov, in turn, was intrigued

    because of being thrown off by such an incomplex question that only had a simple answer

    fascinated the way he understands his own intelligence compared to the auto-repair man. And the

    reason for Asimov’s wrong answer is because, according to the auto-repair man, Asimov is “so

    goddamned educated” and he “couldn’t be very smart” (Paragraph 6). This shows that things in

    life is not always complex and only needs little cognition to work things out. If it were not for

    Asimov’s high level of intelligence that only allows him to see what is beyond what is

    straightforward, he would have easily understood and answered the question correctly.

    In conclusion, Isaac Asimov expresses how intriguing intelligence varies throughout

    everybody and how the smartest can be outsmarted by the less intelligent. Intelligence is not

    rated by how a well a person knows generals knowledge, but by what they are experienced and

    interested in

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