"I'd much rather overestimate the intelligence of the consumer than underestimate it".
THERE are few better ways of upsetting a certain sort of politically correct person than to suggest that intelligence (or, rather, the variation in intelligence between individuals) is under genetic control.
Rather than have the intelligence man who issued Mr Cakici's passport called in for interrogation, the government let him stay abroad.
"Rather than acknowledging defeat, the intelligence officers wanted to double down on a failed approach," Eichenwald writes.
What lifts the book into something rather more interesting is the intelligence underlying those unshowy sentences and the way O'Faolain herself signals her awareness of the potential pitfalls.
On the basis of the past year, it is Lallana whom Allardyce should build his team around – he, rather than Rooney, boasts the intelligence required for a free role.
They just need to follow the direction of Tom McElligott, hall-of fame copywriter and founding creative partner of the great Minneapolis ad agency Fallon McElligott Rice, who once said in the 1980s, you know, in the prehistoric days before social media: I would much rather overestimate than underestimate the intelligence of the consumer.
Tom McElligott, founding creative partner of the great Minneapolis ad agency, Fallon McElligott Rice, once said, and I paraphrase because this was pre-internet 1980s: I would much rather overestimate than underestimate the intelligence of the consumer.
The problem here is not merely that The Turing Test really does test for human intelligence; rather, the problem here is the fact if indeed it is a fact that there are quite inessential features of human intelligence that are extraordinarily difficult to replicate in a machine.
