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Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?
@fmf saidAre you assuming you have a high IQ?
Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?
@suzianne saidYour assumption and my assumption are neither here nor there. The question is: Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?
Are you assuming you have a high IQ?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThat's a great quote; however, "genius" and "intelligence" are not the same thing.
“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
@fmf saidIs this actually a fact? It’s an interesting one if it is true. Depends on how many “so many” is I suppose. Also what a “very high IQ” actual is.
Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?
@fmf saidPartly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.'
Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?
@the-gravedigger saidAlso in play could be the Dopeler Effect:
Partly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.' Dumb folk tend to think they are intelligent because they don't know that they don't know.
@the-gravedigger saidI though you already knew that I knew this.
Very intelligent people don't think they are, they tend to think everybody knows what they know.
@the-gravedigger saidNow THIS, i didn't know. Nor did I know I didn't know it.
Dumb folk tend to think they are intelligent because they don't know that they don't know.
@divegeester saidLol
Also in play could be the Dopeler Effect:
“The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.”
@the-gravedigger saidI met Kruger when I played cricket against South Africa U-17 XI during the boycott [one of the reasons I never played for England] but I've never met Dunning. Is there a particular effect when you meet them together?
Partly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.'
@divegeester saidYou present me with more questions than answers.
Is this actually a fact? It’s an interesting one if it is true. Depends on how many “so many” is I suppose. Also what a “very high IQ” actual is.
@the-gravedigger saidNow that I do know, my memory of what I knew previously is unreliable.
Did you know?