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Are people more intelligent or do we only have greater knowledge?

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  • 3 weeks ago
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    Interesting question.  I don't know.

    Part of the problem is there is no universally accepted definition for intelligence. Some might see improvements in human thinking, compared to centuries ago, as an increase in intelligence, while others might see it as applying knowledge about what we learned from the past. 

  • Anonymous
    7 days ago

    Your question seems like a comparison if some sort, but really doesn't make sense.

  • Janie
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    More intelligent than what?

  • 2 weeks ago

    There are different definitions of intelligence. Hence that is impossible to say. Generally, we have greater knowledge than before available. However, that does not mean that people know how to apply that knowledge (correctly) and/or have the right skills.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    If you mean as compared to the past we just have different knowledge. A typical teen who can navigate the internet and even code probably doesn't understand classic literature as well as an educated teen from a hundred years ago. Meanwhile satellites have made the modern study of things like geography much easier and more accurate than it would have been in 1920. 

  • Tina
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Neither on current showing.

  • .
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Neither. It's all relative and distribution. People are probably weaker, but have more productivity potential with machines.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Just a bigger library.

    Recorded knowledge is part of our culture.

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    Regards,

    John Popelish

  • 3 weeks ago

    Maybe a bit of both. Intelligence isn't entirely a fixed trait. It does develop with practice. And we do have near universal education in every industrialized nation now.

    Source(s): Not like the nobility was innately more intelligent than the peasants under feudal systems. They were just the only ones given an education.
  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 weeks ago

    Who is we? If u wish to find GOD you have to pray when alone and repent of sins.

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