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Lauren Brooks

Mrs.Sharp

Benchmark

09 October 2018 BENCHMARK

In Isaac Asimov’s article, “what is Intelligence, Anyway’’Asimov’s point of view about

intelligence is intelligence comes in different ways and different things. Asimov’s point of view

is developed through is article in which Asimov states explicitly and as well as inferences which

can be drawn from the text to show people can be intelligent in different ways.

Throughout Asimov’s article he states explicitly on how intelligents isn’t always determined

by academic test scores. “Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that i am very good at

answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who

make up the intelligence test-- people with intellectual bents similar as mine?”(Asimov 2)

Asimov clearly states that he doesn’t think the test make him intelligent. Asimov explicitly states

that these academic test don’t show you that you’re smarter than the person next to you who

scored lower than you, but that you have the same the intellectual bents as the people who made

the test. Then continues to state “ Will, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for

an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a framer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an

academician. By every one of these test i’d prove myself a moran’’( Asimov 4) . Asimov states

that each field of work as a different type of intelligence and there isn’t just one. Also Asimov

states if he was to take any other test that isn’t made my an academician he won’t do well on it’s

not because he’s moran but just isn’t what he’s good at.
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Also Asimov gets his points across by allowing the reader to draw inferences from the text. “ “

because you're so goddamn educated, doc, i knew you couldn’t be very smart’’. And i have an

uneasy feeling he had something there.’’ (Asimov 6). Asimov infers that he is so educated that

there wasn't anyway he wouldn't get tricked because something's not everything is about what

you scored on graded paper. Also Asimov as much as he didnt want it to be true he knew that

his auto-repair man was right.” My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the

society i live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself

on the rest as an arbiter of such matters” Asimov implies that an academician makes up very

little and it’s made up of people who may have not been good at school but can fix cars who are

just as smart as him but there have strengths in different areas. He implies that “My”intelligence

is not something that’s absolute but something our society has made it intelligence.

Asimov’s point of view about intelligence is intelligence comes in different ways and

different things. Asimov’s point of view is developed through is article in which Asimov states

explicitly and as well as inferences which can be drawn from the text to show people can be

intelligent in different ways.