I think it is very difficult to quantify intelligence per say . It is equally futile to say A is clever than B due to the fact that different people have different intellectual tools and talents. In many instances, saying that A is smarter than B is like saying that a cloud is bigger than these fish. It is however usefully to say that A is better at carrying out these sorts of tasks than B, which for all intents and purposes is what a degree is all about i.e. a degree is a standard of education and not a mark of intellect.

Standardized forms of evaluation like IQ tests are crude at best, boy do I know that. I am dyslexic and had to fight like hell just to get people to take me seriously. I wasn't diagnosed as dyslexic until half-way through a Masters degree which really didn't make my life any easier. Matter of fact a lot of rather stupid people full of degrees made my life very difficult on account of the fact that they were too dumb to grasp what I was trying to tell them !

So, I may take this space to remind you all of the limited usefulness of generilizations.... (Tee Hee)