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Oxford defines intelligence as the “ability to learn, understand, and think in a logical way about things”, while your boomer mom likely thinks of intelligence as something along the lines of “good at computers”… and they might both be right (in a way)! This is a post about what it actually means to be “smart” or “intelligent”. Intelligence can be a touchy topic, but it can also be one that provides a lot of insight when you look deeply into it. Not to be too cloyingly diplom

Getting invited to a lot of parties is not the forte of people inclined to recreationally mull over the implication of mathematical probability equations. However, fortunately, thinking in counterfactuals is. Thus, envision yourself getting invited to a party where there are 22 other people, and one of these people poses a casual bet to you; they bet that someone at the party shares the same birthday as someone else. "Hmm," you think, "there are 365 days in the year, a max of