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Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart
D1gital_Prob3 writes "How can a 'smart' person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity — how much information you can hold in mind."
Rich people generally aren't intelligent.
In fact, the vast majority of them are fucking imbeciles.
The vast majority of money the rich have is old money. No need to work hard or try to learn when daddy will buy you whatever you want.
The vast majority of money the rich have that isn't old money is celebrity money. Why work hard or learn when you rake in cash for acting?
Hell, why bother acting when you have tits?
Hell, why bother directing or writing when you can just hire some tits and explosions?
In summary, rich people are stupid, because being stupid is easy, and the rich have it easy. The rest of us have to put up with their crap.
Funny, because I see poor people as the ones being stupid. They're not stupid because they are poor, they are poor because they are stupid.
Oh, and get off your high horse.
Really? What is wisdom if not experience, at least in this context? I'm fairly sure that experience in the previous equation represented knowledge gained through experience, which would be wisdom.
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This guy's problem, in my not-so-humble opinion, was that he was letting his score on an IQ test define himself and his potential friends. As long as people who score well on IQ tests go around wearing it like a badge and looking down on everybody else, they are going to be outcasts, because even if you don't say it out loud, people will pick up on it, and then they don't want to be around you. Nobody wants to hang out with the guy who's always subtly reminding everybody of how smart he is.
Funny, I learned this in ninth grade when, after moving to a new school district, I realized that I'd fit in better if the rest of the honors kids didn't realize I was always the one setting the curve.
I started taking my homework, tests, etc., straight from the teacher's hand into my bag, so it wasn't ever visible or shared. The technique served me well through college.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
Great, another PUA-wannabe that is but a keyboard-jockey. *rolleyes*
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