Street smarts is the ability to live and thrive or survive in environments that are associated with a lot of difficulties, dangers, and risks: drugs, gangs, homicides, etc. The type of intelligence employed in passing the tests that arise from such environments corresponds to Sternberg’s contextual subtheory that is hinged on practical intelligence—the type that can help a person make a living in potentially dangerous environments.
According to Sternberg, there are different types of intelligence: analytic, creative, successful and practical. Practical intelligence is also known as street smarts because this type of intelligence does NOT rely on traditional understanding of IQ, but it's rather based on finding solutions by applying knowledge based on previous experiences.
Answer: By testing people who inject drugs for hepatitis C infection, treating those who test positive, and preventing new transmissions, we can mitigate some of the effects of the nation’s devastating opioid crisis and save lives.”
The Reformation was able to be successful because the printing press, in effect, created a network of agitators who read and interacted with other thinkers on how the church needed to be changed.
