History of Smart Character Debates

History of Smart Character Debates Smart Character Debates are from a fairly niche and small community. However there is a long history behind the creation of this type of scaling, a long timeline that will be covered all in a single document. To get things out of the way and make things simple: Weschler’s Adult intelligence scale was designed to understand human intelligence better, it was created all the way back in 1955. Gardner’s intelligence theory was created all the way back in 1983, and emotional intelligence is a term coined by Salavoy in 1990. I could go into a long detailed summary of the history of this research, but I will not. Instead I will go over when the earliest points in time SCD categories were referenced. The 2000s Oct 10, 2003 - A simpson’s thread is open comparing the characters: Lisa and Maggie in who is smarter. This is possibly one of the earliest indications of a smart character debate I have found on the internet. https://nohomers.net/forums/index.php?threads/whos-smarter-lisa-vs-maggie.13923/ April 24, 2006 - A thread is opened comparing two Malcolm in the Middle characters' smartness to each other. Dewey and Malcolm are the characters in question. https://malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/whos-smarter-dewey-or-malcolm.1197/ 2007 - In a comicvine thread, a debate was held debating if Batman was smarter than Mr. Fantastic. A user had brought up the Gardner theory of intelligence as a point to potentially scale the …