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Intelligence has many aspects, of which the ability to understand complicated "analytic stuff" from books is only a part. There's also intelligence in getting
by is74 14y ago
Intelligence has many aspects, of which the ability to understand complicated "analytic stuff" from books is only a part. There's also intelligence in getting things done and avoiding dumb mistakes in complicated and uncertain situations, which seem to play the greater role in startups.
- astrofinch 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) Of course it's not the only cognitive attribute that's important (I don't know of any evidence that ability to get things done correlates with g). BTW, realized that the article didn't explicitly state that the computer science class was introductory, which changes things somewhat.