• a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    4 years ago

    Same with everyone telling me now fucking stupid I am. It'd have a lot more bite if I didn't have a PhD and first-hand experience with how useless most notions of intelligence are.

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      My experience as a premed student robbed me of any pretense that smart people are intelligent and vice versa.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Holy moly what a way to brag about how smart you are

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Bragging about your comprehension of "how useless notions of intelligence are" is genuinely fucking cringe dude

              • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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                4 years ago

                I try very hard to get my students to. Otherwise the students who have been implicitly and explicitly told their whole lives that "they're not one of the smart ones" are going to find all these methods and skills walled off for absolutely no good reason.

                • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  A person's actual level of intelligence is not static, it varies from moment to moment, depending on their level of wakefulness, what they had to eat that day, their momentary emotional state, and a hundred other factors. The "smartest" person you know can still step into a rake and that absolute dumbass who just cut you off in traffic might actually have a very good reason for what they are doing. I chalk up the whole enterprise of intelligence measurement to yet another instance of where we individualize something that depends as much on externalities as not.