I submit to your presentation.
The trick, however, is spreading the skills across all of the attributes
so that they don't all stack up under Edumacation, which they too easily
could. So that's one more tortured rationalization to come up with to move
an EDU skill over to INT to keep things even. :-)
> My job involves a certain amount of "Cargo Handling", aka, loading
> furniture and electrical doohickeys into people's cars, trailers, and what
> not.
>
> It's not "native intelligence". It's "learned knowledge".
>
> Having to learn to do this was a very strong reminder that there is more
> to intelligence than the merely academic. I am, of course, the kind of
> person for whom walking and chewing gum is a challenge.
>
>
> ---In , <dcndcn13@...> wrote :
>
> Given the choice I'd put Cargo Handling under INT because spatial
> reasoning is more like native intelligence, and HazMat under EDU because
> that stuff is not intuitive, it's learned knowledge.
>
> What both of the skills remind me of is how much problematic
> overlap-underlap kept working its way into the skills roster. Maybe one
> way of looking at Cargo Handling is that it would also work for
> warehouse
> managers. I think there is a legitimate place for it. If you've spent
> time
> with furniture movers or people who pack moving trucks or storage units
> for a living you notice that some people have developed a real utility
> for
> "3D Tetris" that many people don't have. HazMat could be a cascade
> subset
> of a Chemistry or Laboratory skill. And those last two I freely admit
> that
> I don't recall what they are really called.
>
>
The trick, however, is spreading the skills across all of the attributes
so that they don't all stack up under Edumacation, which they too easily
could. So that's one more tortured rationalization to come up with to move
an EDU skill over to INT to keep things even. :-)
> My job involves a certain amount of "Cargo Handling", aka, loading
> furniture and electrical doohickeys into people's cars, trailers, and what
> not.
>
> It's not "native intelligence". It's "learned knowledge".
>
> Having to learn to do this was a very strong reminder that there is more
> to intelligence than the merely academic. I am, of course, the kind of
> person for whom walking and chewing gum is a challenge.
>
>
> ---In , <dcndcn13@...> wrote :
>
> Given the choice I'd put Cargo Handling under INT because spatial
> reasoning is more like native intelligence, and HazMat under EDU because
> that stuff is not intuitive, it's learned knowledge.
>
> What both of the skills remind me of is how much problematic
> overlap-underlap kept working its way into the skills roster. Maybe one
> way of looking at Cargo Handling is that it would also work for
> warehouse
> managers. I think there is a legitimate place for it. If you've spent
> time
> with furniture movers or people who pack moving trucks or storage units
> for a living you notice that some people have developed a real utility
> for
> "3D Tetris" that many people don't have. HazMat could be a cascade
> subset
> of a Chemistry or Laboratory skill. And those last two I freely admit
> that
> I don't recall what they are really called.
>
>