IQ doesn't equal intelligence. Post examples here.

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IQ doesn't equal intelligence. Post examples here.

Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:47 pm

This thread is for examples of clever people who do stupid things.

Like this :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14538848
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Re: IQ doesn't equal intelligence. Post examples here.

Post by maiforpeace » Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:53 pm

mistermack wrote:This thread is for examples of clever people who do stupid things.

Like this :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14538848
I didn't see anything in the article describing her as clever or having an exceptional IQ. Am I missing something? :think:
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Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:00 pm

maiforpeace wrote: I didn't see anything in the article describing her as clever or having an exceptional IQ. Am I missing something? :think:
Just assumed it. She's an exchange student in higher education. And the Japanese are supposed to have higher IQs than westerners on average.
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Post by Pappa » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:01 pm

mistermack wrote:
maiforpeace wrote: I didn't see anything in the article describing her as clever or having an exceptional IQ. Am I missing something? :think:
Just assumed it. She's an exchange student in higher education. And the Japanese are supposed to have higher IQs than westerners on average.

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Post by maiforpeace » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:02 pm

Self awareness is just one aspect of intelligence.
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Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:10 pm

This is one attempt to explain why smart people do stupid things :

http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature ... t-kleiner/
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Post by maiforpeace » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:14 pm

mistermack wrote:This is one attempt to explain why smart people do stupid things :

http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature ... t-kleiner/
I've always referred to that as 'street smarts' - for want of a better word. People may be intelligent, but lack street smarts, and vice versa.
He’s even coined a term to describe the failure to act rationally despite adequate intelligence: “dysrationalia.”
A word after Rationalia's heart. :biggrin:
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Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:22 pm

maiforpeace wrote:
mistermack wrote:This is one attempt to explain why smart people do stupid things :

http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature ... t-kleiner/
I've always referred to that as 'street smarts' - for want of a better word. People may be intelligent, but lack street smarts, and vice versa.
Don't you think that street smartness is a facet of intelligence?
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:38 pm

Leaving the show early might be considered a smart move at this particular moment in human history? :smoke:
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Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:48 pm

Crumple wrote:Leaving the show early might be considered a smart move at this particular moment in human history? :smoke:
Depends. if you have somewhere nice to go, and the show is crap.
I think I'll sit it out. The show might be crap, but the bar is still open.
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Post by Warren Dew » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:48 pm

Pappa wrote:
mistermack wrote:
maiforpeace wrote: I didn't see anything in the article describing her as clever or having an exceptional IQ. Am I missing something? :think:
Just assumed it. She's an exchange student in higher education. And the Japanese are supposed to have higher IQs than westerners on average.
I think even the average difference is only about 3 IQ points, too.

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Post by mistermack » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:52 pm

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Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:51 pm

mistermack wrote:Image
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Post by Azathoth » Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:15 pm

Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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Post by FBM » Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:26 pm

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