Strong enough language barriers make all but the last one mostly useless, but for fluent English speakers, I can tell if they can:
Point out things I didn’t see yet about things I’ve been thinking about for a while, or build models in any domain that’s new to them.
Notice what I’m feeling before I do, and make inferences about how to act.
Pick up on new-to-them concepts I’m using and apply them to new situations in real time.
Explain things to me clearly and simply that I didn’t understand or know about before, responsively to dynamic queries, without extraneous material that I didn’t ask about.
Explain multi-level causal models or do verbal recursive reasoning at all.
Explain anything, ever, even at a single level.
Tell a story.
Directly articulate their feelings, preferences, or thoughts, verbally or nonverbally.
Interact with physical objects, keep track of what’s physically going on in the room and who’s in it.
These are very roughly in descending order of intelligence level necessary.
Strong enough language barriers make all but the last one mostly useless, but for fluent English speakers, I can tell if they can:
Point out things I didn’t see yet about things I’ve been thinking about for a while, or build models in any domain that’s new to them.
Notice what I’m feeling before I do, and make inferences about how to act.
Pick up on new-to-them concepts I’m using and apply them to new situations in real time.
Explain things to me clearly and simply that I didn’t understand or know about before, responsively to dynamic queries, without extraneous material that I didn’t ask about.
Explain multi-level causal models or do verbal recursive reasoning at all.
Explain anything, ever, even at a single level.
Tell a story.
Directly articulate their feelings, preferences, or thoughts, verbally or nonverbally.
Interact with physical objects, keep track of what’s physically going on in the room and who’s in it.
These are very roughly in descending order of intelligence level necessary.
Interesting. Thanks!