Luana Nascimento

ESL 073-020

Dr. Wan-Ning Yeh

02/07/2024

Annotation 1 1. Summary

1.Born in the Soviet Union, Isaac Asimov immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1923 and
earned a doctorate from Columbia University.

2. What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received a kind of aptitude test that all
soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160.

3. All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly
intelligent, and I expect other people to think so, too.

4.For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence test, could not possibly have
scored more than 80, by my estimate.

5. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a
small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

In Asimov's article, he tried to define intelligence by using various examples. ...

2. “Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of
academic questions....”

I like this quotation because it… “he shows the selfish side that people around him have given him the
idea of what is be intelligent”

2. “My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small
subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters”

This quotation is important because “We see that intelligence is not only based on being good at test,
but also in other ways”

3. “I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was”

This quotation is significant because “The arrogance of a person who claims to be intelligent has the idea
of being far superior to people that society employs, not being or having enough intelligence, but we
must prioritize that any type of area is important and that we must value”