As Robert A. Heinlein (in The Number of the Beast) and Tom Clancy (in The Sum of All Fears) both observed, obtaining an advanced degree consists mainly of “recording” everything the professor says and repeating it verbatim on cue.
A few decades ago I was a member of MENSA – the high IQ club. One of the main reasons I let my membership lapse was so many the highest IQs I’ve ever seen resided in the dumbest people I’ve ever met. Proof positive that “Intelligent” and “Smart” are NOT congruent terms . . .
Pretty much the same reason here.
Someone needs to come out with a ‘common sense club’, but hardly anyone would pass the entry tests.
February 20, 2024 at 12:02 pm
ULTRA-MAGA TOP DAWG JTC
As I have quoted here many times, some of the dumbest people I ever met were some of the most inculcated…I mean “educated”. And I do so enjoy playing with them…esp. those mensa twinks with their little lapel pin…
I always think of the girl in Short Circuit getting frustrated with the main 2 characters and asking, “Are all geniuses this stupid?”
The answer, as we know, is Yes. Most of them, anyway.
February 20, 2024 at 1:23 pm
Oldarmourer
Education does not equal intelligence, some things you can only learn by doing.
I don’t know how many times I had to tell new hires “they don’t teach common sense in school, so pay attention”
February 20, 2024 at 1:31 pm
Oldarmourer
A very great many of the people I worked with held multiple degrees but brought their reports to me to look over before submitting them, they had spell and grammar check that did a much better job than I ever could but the word processor program didn’t have a ‘screen out glaringly obvious bullshit’ function.
Once upon a time, a degree meant you had proven that you knew how to question things, to examine them from all angles and perhaps make new discoveries about them to put up for discussion and debate to further the advancement of knowledge in previously unconsidered ways.
Today, a degree means you can copy the proper, approved answers onto the proper forms using the proper, approved words and never question them since ‘the science is settled’.
Fun game…when one of these multi advanced degree types tries to lord over you, challenge him to a game of chess. And be specific…$1000 cash on the line that you will take him (her, it) to checkmate in 17 moves or less.
That is the most wonderful chess gambit that has yet to fail me; yes there is a real 17 move plan that almost invariably works, but that is almost irrelevant as the smarty pants types know that chess is considered the ultimate quick test of actual innate intelligence and the $1000 thing scares them, but even worse is that they fear being exposed as a fraud…In a few eff-book forums that get kind of heated I enjoy calling out the obvious bs’ers with that challenge, and have never once had to follow through…Which is good considering that I can sometimes make the gambit work but sometimes not with a player that knows it. But these fake ass idiots invariably do not.
I like the fool’s mate. Four moves and it’s over. Lost twice in a row to a young 7th grader. I was in ninth grade. Once I figured out how to block it, she never beat me again. She was a one-trick player.
Back in the early 70s I was given a game called Chess-cubed. Same basic setup as normal, but black and white are on the top or bottom levels of three identical boards. One up, one down. You play on all three at once.
I have the set up on a shelf in my office as a conversation piece, displaying fools mate in three moves.
The mantra of today’s ‘intelligencia’ can be summed up as follows…
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
—Adolf Hitler, 1927
Once upon a time in my distant past, I had the opportunity to instruct a few so-called Brilliant people that needed to know how to use a few hand power tools. Because of the obvious ‘ Why do we have to listen to this peon?” attitude, I started with the line: “Pay attention because these can and will kill you.” They did enough that the noise and inherent violence kept them alert.
Heh! Used a big old Milwaukee drill to give them a chance to feel it.
Love it! There was a big ol’ 3/4″ Milwaukee drill, musta been 30-40 years old, at the mill where I worked as a kid. Super slow RPM but you get that bit hung up and you got both hands on the handles and can’t get to the switch…effin’ thing would take your arm clean off, damn near did to me but my buddy yanked the cord and saved my silly ass…
Little brother standing on a nominal 4″ oak plank drilling with a inch and half wood auger bit. When it jammed, he just stayed with it and rode the plank around and around until it unplugged itself. LMAO.
February 20, 2024 at 3:39 pm
MEGAMAGARAMA-PaulS
Sorry (not sorry), but my mind instantly interpreted the image as they were in a full-on kiss.
Chris, naughty man! 😉
Well OT again, but this is the shit I have been warning about for years now, all happening at once, immediately after braindead’s EO, all preplanned, they had a 1300 PAGE treatise ready to go in one day? Right. This is the most important and significant gun control action in years… Fight. This. Shit!
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She represents the median intelligence level of All Washington bureaucrats
So long as differential enforcement remains the Way of the Swamp, it will remain undrained…
Differential, and even worse, deferential…
I know more than a few people with multiple degrees who in real life are not smart enough to be called stupid.
And they continually display that shortcoming.
As Robert A. Heinlein (in The Number of the Beast) and Tom Clancy (in The Sum of All Fears) both observed, obtaining an advanced degree consists mainly of “recording” everything the professor says and repeating it verbatim on cue.
A reel-to-reel tape recorder could do as much.
clear ether
eon
A few decades ago I was a member of MENSA – the high IQ club. One of the main reasons I let my membership lapse was so many the highest IQs I’ve ever seen resided in the dumbest people I’ve ever met. Proof positive that “Intelligent” and “Smart” are NOT congruent terms . . .
Pretty much the same reason here.
Someone needs to come out with a ‘common sense club’, but hardly anyone would pass the entry tests.
As I have quoted here many times, some of the dumbest people I ever met were some of the most inculcated…I mean “educated”. And I do so enjoy playing with them…esp. those mensa twinks with their little lapel pin…
I always think of the girl in Short Circuit getting frustrated with the main 2 characters and asking, “Are all geniuses this stupid?”
The answer, as we know, is Yes. Most of them, anyway.
Education does not equal intelligence, some things you can only learn by doing.
I don’t know how many times I had to tell new hires “they don’t teach common sense in school, so pay attention”
A very great many of the people I worked with held multiple degrees but brought their reports to me to look over before submitting them, they had spell and grammar check that did a much better job than I ever could but the word processor program didn’t have a ‘screen out glaringly obvious bullshit’ function.
Moseley-Braun is apparently busy influencing NW University students these days. Maybe Bowman was channeling something on her bucket list.
‘Educated’ does not automatically equate with ‘intelligent” or ‘wise’.
I’ve seen far too many examples to prove that, and more so these days than in the previous 5 decades or so.
The only thing a degree proves today is indoctranation was attended.
Once upon a time, a degree meant you had proven that you knew how to question things, to examine them from all angles and perhaps make new discoveries about them to put up for discussion and debate to further the advancement of knowledge in previously unconsidered ways.
Today, a degree means you can copy the proper, approved answers onto the proper forms using the proper, approved words and never question them since ‘the science is settled’.
wisdom in essence
non conceptual clarity
As Heinlein noted; a school is a log with a teacher on one end and a student on the other.
The further you get from this basic concept, the less of a school it is.
Fun game…when one of these multi advanced degree types tries to lord over you, challenge him to a game of chess. And be specific…$1000 cash on the line that you will take him (her, it) to checkmate in 17 moves or less.
That is the most wonderful chess gambit that has yet to fail me; yes there is a real 17 move plan that almost invariably works, but that is almost irrelevant as the smarty pants types know that chess is considered the ultimate quick test of actual innate intelligence and the $1000 thing scares them, but even worse is that they fear being exposed as a fraud…In a few eff-book forums that get kind of heated I enjoy calling out the obvious bs’ers with that challenge, and have never once had to follow through…Which is good considering that I can sometimes make the gambit work but sometimes not with a player that knows it. But these fake ass idiots invariably do not.
I like the fool’s mate. Four moves and it’s over. Lost twice in a row to a young 7th grader. I was in ninth grade. Once I figured out how to block it, she never beat me again. She was a one-trick player.
Back in the early 70s I was given a game called Chess-cubed. Same basic setup as normal, but black and white are on the top or bottom levels of three identical boards. One up, one down. You play on all three at once.
I have the set up on a shelf in my office as a conversation piece, displaying fools mate in three moves.
The mantra of today’s ‘intelligencia’ can be summed up as follows…
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
—Adolf Hitler, 1927
Once upon a time in my distant past, I had the opportunity to instruct a few so-called Brilliant people that needed to know how to use a few hand power tools. Because of the obvious ‘ Why do we have to listen to this peon?” attitude, I started with the line: “Pay attention because these can and will kill you.” They did enough that the noise and inherent violence kept them alert.
Heh! Used a big old Milwaukee drill to give them a chance to feel it.
Love it! There was a big ol’ 3/4″ Milwaukee drill, musta been 30-40 years old, at the mill where I worked as a kid. Super slow RPM but you get that bit hung up and you got both hands on the handles and can’t get to the switch…effin’ thing would take your arm clean off, damn near did to me but my buddy yanked the cord and saved my silly ass…
Little brother standing on a nominal 4″ oak plank drilling with a inch and half wood auger bit. When it jammed, he just stayed with it and rode the plank around and around until it unplugged itself. LMAO.
Sorry (not sorry), but my mind instantly interpreted the image as they were in a full-on kiss.
Chris, naughty man! 😉
Well OT again, but this is the shit I have been warning about for years now, all happening at once, immediately after braindead’s EO, all preplanned, they had a 1300 PAGE treatise ready to go in one day? Right. This is the most important and significant gun control action in years… Fight. This. Shit!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/whistleblowers-expose-biden-administration-plan-to-end-private-gun-sales/ss-BB1ixnm9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=5fdef2572a2e44aebea160b5011b9559&ei=49#image=1