The Importance of General Intelligence

I don't think that your general cognitive ability needs to be so intimately tied to real world conceptions of smartness and stupidness. But the way you're talking suggests that you do, it's tie IQ so fundamentally to the word smart. Well, maybe what needs maybe what needs to happen is that it would be nice if we could wave our wand and sort of, you know, make people in general more aware of the reality of what I test measure.