Can your intelligence effect your speech and articulation? I found this interesting post on Reddit earlier about this topic. I really feel this post as someone with speech disorders and a intellectual disability I’ve wondered this before. Is it true tho?
Stephen Hawking.
“People who boast about their IQ are losers”
-Stephen Hawking
Tho I have a good (not great) IQ, I know I have trouble talking with people when I had some time of isolation. I then stumble often and easily forget very common words for some reason and then have to explain them, which is extremely embarrassing. I had a rough time during depression where I thought I might have Alzheimers or something. It has a lot to do with confidence for me I think. Once I feel confident and had a good flow, I can be a very good talker.
Well “intelligence” is a pretty vague term. Different people are good at different things. Intelligence isnt like a CPU clock or whatever where you can give it some general score. One person might be really good with language, and another is really good at math, or another is musically gifted, etc. How do you decide who is more “intelligent” between them? When theyre all amazing at different things? I know a guy who can barely put a sentence together, and struggles to understand what im saying sometimes, but he can take a car apart and put it back together again from memory.
Now as for if certain mental disabilities have a co-morbidity of trouble with speech im sure they do tho im no expert. Its very common for 1 condition to have a few other conditions that commonly accompany it. You can look up the specific diagnosis you have and check what the co-morbiditys are online.
I think the study of Ludwig Wittgenstein is all about language being at the center of intelligence, no? I think it even argues that there is no real intelligence without language.
Ironically, Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations touches on how thinkers often confuse themselves by slightly shifting the meanings of others’ words (like a game of telephone!) – and, you may have done that here, since he’s never framed language in the way you mentioned ( ꩜ . ꩜ ;).
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. r/philosophy discussion
Furthermore, in Tractatus (though he kind of discredited this book later in life), Wittgenstein argues
What can be shown cannot be said
as a weakness of propositional language (vs. e.g. pictorial language) – then, this is yet further against “language being at the center in intelligence”. (Stanford Plato discussion)
Maybe you’re confusing him with someone else? :D
I think the first thing to recognize is that there is absolutely no single measure of intelligence. IQ scores are (a)
seriouslyflawedand discredited(and narrowly focused measure of human abilities). Human intellectual powers have many dimensions. Someone may be weak in speech and articulation but on the other hand be an absolute genius mechanically, artistically, or in some other aspect of human intellectual pursuit.discredited
Do you have any references for this?
You can study for an IQ test and raise your grade so it doesn’t really measure anything important, just test taking ability, which I suspect is where a lot of other positive correlations between IQ and college admissions/outcomes/etc factor in
