Originally Posted by Flyndaran (Post 1505851)

Intelligence needs to be defined first, then sensibly measured long before its genetic components can be properly studied, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by rust (Post 1508016)

To quote my favourite psychology teacher, intelligence is what is measured
by the intelligence test one is using, and each of the currently used tests
measures something different, depending on the author's personal definition
of intelligence ...

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen (Post 1507889)

I did some thinking, more than a decade ago, about various forms of machine aided pseudo-psi (eventually, with great skill, doable even without machines), using subliminal communications and so forth. One of the ideas I had was that you'd "test" someone who exposing him or her to a subliminal stimuli, and noting the reaction (physiology and so forth). In theory, it'd be possible to "interrogate" someone that way, by showing them things that they are expected to react to in one particular fashion if they are good citizens, and so if they fail to react correctly in several cases, you know you've caught a thought-criminal

Originally Posted by cptbutton (Post 1508164)

That is roughly what the Voight-Kampf machines do in Bladerunner. They measure emotional reactions to questions, and the operators know how the reactions of replicants tend to differ from those of born-men.