A troubling scene in the second chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, features newly introduced character John Isidore watching a live television broadcast from Mars. On the broadcast a women is being interviewed and asked if she likes New New York, Mars and her response was that she felt a sense of dignity, from owning humanoid androids that she can depend on to serve her (Dick 16-17). In this same interview, she is asked if she was ever worried about being deemed as “special” meaning unintelligent and unable to leave the deteriorating earth. this in turn elicits a livid response from Isidore, because he was deemed special leaving him trapped on the earth, alone, and unable to get a well paying job. This part of who Isadore is impacts him so deeply that he continuously throughout the rest of the chapters calls himself a chickenhead.
Question
How should intelligence be measured- through the use of standardized testing, critical thinking in scenario based procedures, through determination to succeed, or through something else entirely?