Well I won't even go into the whole rain doesn't actually cause colds as the point of the thread was the separation of common sense and intelligence. However you might want to change it to something more... true. For example hot stoves will burn your hand is always a good one.
Yes the two are different things which is something that most people recognize. However what you call "Common sense" isn't really a thing. In fact the term would be meaningless except that most people have a general idea of how to interpret it.
A) What is and is not "common" in this case is almost impossible to define as is thus arbitrary/relative.
B) It isn't "sense" but knowledge.
All of what is called common sense is really a subset of knowledge. That is knowledge that is well known/easily gathered either through experience (touch a hot stove), being taught (Hey don't touch the hot stove it will burn you), or logical extensions (Objects that give off heat will burn other objects that touch it-> My hand is an object -> The stove will burn my hand if I touch it).
What is common is something that most people will know through one of these three ways. However what seems common to me might not be common to say someone else depending on who they are surrounded by/what they know. For example it may seem to be "common sense" that you need fuel/energy to run an engine. However if you were never exposed to a culture that knows of engines you would not know that.
TLDR: Common sense is just a way of saying "knowledge that most people around me have". Since intelligence is the capability to understand and knowledge is something you have learned they are different things.
A more interesting discussion would be what is more valuable for an individual to have, intelligence or knowledge. While I would argue for intelligence (especially with the invention of the internet) most of society does seem to value knowledge more. At least from my perspective.
Yes the two are different things which is something that most people recognize. However what you call "Common sense" isn't really a thing. In fact the term would be meaningless except that most people have a general idea of how to interpret it.
A) What is and is not "common" in this case is almost impossible to define as is thus arbitrary/relative.
B) It isn't "sense" but knowledge.
All of what is called common sense is really a subset of knowledge. That is knowledge that is well known/easily gathered either through experience (touch a hot stove), being taught (Hey don't touch the hot stove it will burn you), or logical extensions (Objects that give off heat will burn other objects that touch it-> My hand is an object -> The stove will burn my hand if I touch it).
What is common is something that most people will know through one of these three ways. However what seems common to me might not be common to say someone else depending on who they are surrounded by/what they know. For example it may seem to be "common sense" that you need fuel/energy to run an engine. However if you were never exposed to a culture that knows of engines you would not know that.
TLDR: Common sense is just a way of saying "knowledge that most people around me have". Since intelligence is the capability to understand and knowledge is something you have learned they are different things.
A more interesting discussion would be what is more valuable for an individual to have, intelligence or knowledge. While I would argue for intelligence (especially with the invention of the internet) most of society does seem to value knowledge more. At least from my perspective.