03-10-2019, 07:02 PM
(03-10-2019, 06:51 PM)Guest Wrote: I've heard of studies that put it another way:
"An incompetent person isn't competent to judge his own competence."
If you meet someone who thinks intelligence is synonymous with education, you're probably talking to one of these idiots.
Well that has more to do with the observed Dunning Krueger effect. What I’m talking about is how the average person knows well enough when they’re in the presence of someone an intellectual class above them. But they can’t distinguish between many higher levels of intellect of them. In fact, the reasoning of a person with elevated IQ such as 140 and above might not even seem reasonable to someone with an iQ of only 100. That’s why you don’t see the smartest people in politics. We see people like George W. Bush (IQ around 125) and John Kerry (around 117). i.e., we see people who are around but not much more than 20 points above their constituents. Superior intellects (Al Gore, 130+) either don’t get hired or go into a more remunerative profession (i.e. Ben Bernanke, IQ 150-160+).
