This is an aspect of what Ayn Rand called the pyramid of intellectual ability.
Students have to demonstrate intellectual ability over time and across a range of subjects.
There is of course no test of intellectual ability for those sitting on a jury.
The silence about differences in intellectual ability on educational topics that scream for their discussion is astonishing.
What if it turned out that by enhancing intellectual ability, some other personality trait changed as well?
We know that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sergey Brin are and Steve Jobs was in the top 1% in intellectual ability.
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Teaching unions are predictably cross, arguing that some people might struggle to achieve much at university for reasons other than their intellectual ability.
Try to think of the last time you saw a newspaper story about No Child Left Behind that mentioned low intellectual ability as the reason why some students don't perform at grade level.
From this list, I have assessed whether the following people are in the top 1% of intellectual ability simply based on the school that they were admitted to as an undergraduate or graduate student.
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Mr Miliband's intellectual ability is widely admired but his presentational skills were questioned when he allowed himself to be photographed - at the height of the speculation over a potential coup - grinning and holding a banana.
He is not an intellectual force with a compelling ability to forge legislation and get things done.
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However, some humans - infants, and those with severe intellectual disabilities - have less ability to reason and less self-awareness than some nonhuman animals.
They see the convention as a means of strengthening their ability to protect intellectual property in countries where it is currently difficult to make legal judgments stick and are therefore about the only people with a kind word to say about the convention.
They expressed questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative.
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The school says it asks people who recommend a student to score the applicant on ability to cope with pressure, intellectual curiosity and other traits.
The ability of your magazine to keep its intellectual property and profit from it, your GPS, cell phone, and laptop did not come without a price.
His mature writings on Shakespeare pay testimony to his continued ability to be deeply moved: over-intellectual modern-day critics should take a lesson from his capacity to write intelligently about emotion.
It is an ability to connect with people from other cultures on an intellectual as well as emotional level.
An intellectual understanding of the global business context in other words, an ability to comprehend just how complex it can be to do business around the world.
"We will continue to assert our intellectual property rights and defend against Apple's claims to ensure our continued ability to provide innovative mobile products to consumers, " it said.
An unfavorable ruling could include monetary damages or an injunction prohibiting Intel from manufacturing or selling one or more products, precluding particular business practices, impacting Intel's ability to design its products, or requiring other remedies such as compulsory licensing of intellectual property.
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Dr. Gow said previous research with the Lothian group suggested people who participated in more social and intellectual activities at age 70 and had better cognitive abilities were the ones who scored higher on mental ability tests at age 11.
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" Found on page six, "DoD will manage the force in ways that protect its ability to regenerate capabilities that might be needed to meet future, unforeseen demands, maintaining intellectual capital and rank structure that could be called upon to expand key elements of the force.
"We are very pleased to have resolved our patent licensing issues with RIM and reached this new agreement, while maintaining Nokia's ability to protect our unique product differentiation, " said Paul Melin, Nokia's chief intellectual property officer.
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