"fixed intelligence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase to describe a mindset or outlook on a particular topic that is rigid and unyielding, such as "The politician was known for their fixed intelligence on foreign policy issues."
Kamiya asks how it is that anyone would pay any attention at all to people who not only were wrong about Iraq but fixed the intelligence (e.g, Undersecretary of State Douglas Feith) to get the bloody result they wanted.
Yes, we need to fix our intelligence.
He was direct and right when he said the Americans were determined to invade Iraq and would fix the intelligence.
The key challenge in defending the "homeland" isn't reorganization; it's fixing the intelligence community (front page, July 8).
On Sunday, Senator Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the intelligence committee, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the urgency of those problems meant there was not much time to fix the intelligence community.
Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, alluded to the ruling last week on Fox News in arguing for swift passage of the surveillance legislation as a way of fixing that intelligence gap.
The July 2002 "Downing Street memo," the minutes of a meeting in which Tony Blair and his advisers learned of a White House effort to fix "the intelligence and facts" to justify the war in Iraq, was published by The London Sunday Times on May 1.
The decision to invade was "corrupt, venial, dishonest, tragic" since Downing Street, half of Democratic Senators and terrorism czar Richard Clarke, among others, thought that the White House was "fixing the intelligence" around their pre-conclusions.
This traditional theory assumes that fluid intelligence is heavily influenced by genes and relatively fixed, whereas crystallized intelligence is more heavily dependent on acquired skills and learning opportunities.
This new developmental paradigm is a big idea to swallow, considering how much effort has gone into persuading us that each of us inherits a fixed amount of intelligence, and that most of us are doomed to be mediocre.
