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Smart People Choke Under Pressure
People perceived as the most likely to succeed might also be the most likely to crumble under pressure.
A new study finds that individuals with high working-memory capacity, which normally allows them to excel, crack under pressure and do worse on simple exams than when allowed to work with no constraints. Those with less capacity score low, too, but they tend not to be affected by pressure.
well, you dullard, you'll be figuring out the most efficient routes for the garbage truck.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
No, the dumb people like Dubya still make bad decisions. It's just that pressure isn't the reason. I guess it's called paralysis by analysis, but not a problem when you're just a puppet.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I guess you don't know that you can fit the square through the round hole sooner and with less expansion by rotating it infinitely whilst pushing/pulling it through the hole.
I'm glad I could teach you something.
I just punch them until they stop. Granted, I may have changed the rules, but what Genius doesn't?
Your threat-mentality defines your intellect more than any rebutal I could post here.
Thanks for bumping my post though.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.