re: #260 WindUpBird

Critical thinking skills. You can be brilliant at mechanical aptitude and have no critical thinking skills.

Not an accurate description of what I was describing. Those folks, racist and extremist right wing as they might be, had excellent critical thinking skills in a given context.

The transferability of critical thinking skills across different contexts is highly debatable. Have you never met a brilliant programmer who couldn’t manage to put in a matched-pair of socks, sweet-talk a member of the opposite sex?

Google multiple intelligences/Howard Gardner.