I find academic fads fascinating. "Intelligence" has become a taboo word, and so we find "cognitive ability" in its place, which is I guess a shibboleth for the in-group when you mean intelligence.
They do use the term intelligence in the article itself.
If it's just IQ the then why not just write "high-IQ" and avoid the ambiguity?
EDIT: See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855704
Anyway this is normal human stuff that is always going on, its a bit silly, but its also fine. Find other battles to get irritated about that matter, is my advice.
I don’t know if I’m being sarcastic or not anymore.
Intelligence is used in multiple contexts and that makes it confusing even as a technical term. For example, in the context of national security or corporate strategy, it means "knowledge" rather than intellect.
Still, even the words themselves don’t seem to mean exactly the same thing; cognitive ability does seem more specific than intelligence (especially if you consider the common terms emotional intelligence, general intelligence, and artificial intelligence). It’s pretty easy to find evidence that cognitive ability and intelligence mean slightly different things. https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/12/21/are-cognitive-abilit...
Plus there are different aptitude tests, some named IQ Test (Stanford-Binet) and some named Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT).
In any sense of applied science “intelligence” is intractable. The historical equivalent definition would be maybe something like “cognitive ability for logic puzzle solving in Western culture”
Or maybe you were making a joke, but this is a real problem, and “reason” has the same problem.
Doesn't seem to be the case. Quote from the paper:
> Largely omitted from the conversation, by contrast, is cognitive ability—also called intelligence, and which reflects the individuals' maximal (rather than typical) performance when understanding and solving complex problems and ideas.
cognitive abilities don't necessarily require intelligence, depending on which they are talking about.
for example attention is a cognitive ability, many so called gifted kids lack the ability to focus and/or pay prolonged attention.
They are all either sociopaths or psycopaths, two conditions that have in common the the inability to understand and care about the consequences of their actions.
Oh please. He got the spoiled rich kid treatment (son of a congressman in this case). Joining the guard was a way to get out of Vietnam. His 'champagne unit' flew obsolete fighters that were never going overseas. At a time when it was very hard for blacks to get into the guard, his unit had two. (Why? They were Dallas Cowboys).
A smart man would take such a good deal and do nothing to screw up his free ride. GWB was not smart, so then...