One of the starkest lessons learned by hanging out around polyglots: no truly serious language learner will have a straight answer to "how many languages do you speak?" — instead, they'll explain their level in and history with each language, possibly in great detail.
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Ruth Deyermond
As I may have said on here before, I've never met a clever person who talks about their IQ or values it as a measure of anything but the limitations of the person talking about it.
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It may be an overstatement to generalize this to _all_ other skills, but as starting assumptions go it isn't the worst.