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This smug PhD was served a slice of humble pie when she shamed an "uneducated" Marine in this IQ experiment
Not The Bee ^ | Nov 7, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 11/07/2023 9:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger

It's always nice to see smug people get a slice of humble pie, isn't it?

This is a few years old, but it went viral again over the weekend and it's a great laugh/lesson:

1 minute video at link...........

The smug PhD was SO sure of herself!

"Two, me. I don't know! PhD, cancer biology, scientist, I work in a biotech company, we make Covid-19 testing kits, stuff like that!"

Credentials ≠ intelligence!

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She was last!.......................


TOPICS: Education; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: iq; notthebee
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To: jimwatx
I think there’s a ‘sweet spot’ as far as IQ is concerned, probably around 125 or so. After that the negatives start overriding the positives as far as social and intellectual achievement is concerned.

I disagree. Yes, there are people with higher IQs who have glaring deficiencies. Mine is OK, but in worldly terms I would probably be described as an underachiever. But when you meet someone with great intelligence combined with conscientiousness, some humility and a balanced worldview, there is no downside.
21 posted on 11/07/2023 10:08:18 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Red Badger

Agreed - mine tried to tell me I was wasting my time applying to the Academies and for ROTC scholarships because we were in small-town Indiana and I had no connections. (My HS class was 72 people)

It was looking bleak the week before graduation....then Monday prior I got 2 3 year ROTC scholarships (Navy/AF), Tuesday prior got those upgraded to 4 year ROTC scholarships, and Wednesday got my appointment to USNA.

I was riding high the next day during the senior awards program with graduation on Friday.


22 posted on 11/07/2023 10:09:38 AM PST by reed13k
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To: Dr. Sivana

For instance....Donald Trump.


23 posted on 11/07/2023 10:14:29 AM PST by Aria
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To: rlmorel

Thank you for that tribute. I so tried to be the man most of my working life.

I’m a bit sad today. The local small town grade school kids were to put on a program for local veterans today at the school. I so wanted to go and support them, but am having some nasal problems and didn’t want to expose them.
Semper Fi


24 posted on 11/07/2023 10:25:38 AM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I call someone with a phd an Elmer Phfudd.

I have yet to find one that understands what I’m saying.


25 posted on 11/07/2023 10:29:03 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I’ve met many people with very high IQ’s and there’s a great deal of difference among them. I remember back in my drinking days a drinking buddy of mine says to me “you’re pretty intelligent, you should meet my dad who is a genius”. Well since this guy was a total idiot, I assumed he was bs-ing me because I couldn’t imagine him being related to somebody that smart. But he was, his daddy was a member of the Mega group or whatever they called people with over a 180 IQ. He was seriously into game theory at the time and thought he could figure out stock market movements using that as a formula for beating the odds. Didn’t work out and he died a few months after I met him leaving only a $6k estate. He lived in the same drug infested trailer park I did at the time. This was a man with over 200 patents and an interesting history of working for the OSS (precursor to the CIA) yet died a somewhat ignominious death. A genius at math but foolishly thought he could predict human nature flawlessly by using these mathematical models to predict human behavior and the market.


26 posted on 11/07/2023 10:29:25 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Leaning Right

“Fun video. But given that it originally came from TikTok, there’s a decent chance it’s faked.”

With an IQ of 131 one would expect better than just a HS grad and enlistment.


27 posted on 11/07/2023 10:30:19 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

I love this! “He was ranking intelligence based on his point of view and not taking in other point of views.” She didn’t like the way he carries himself. What a something-that-rhymes-with-rich!


28 posted on 11/07/2023 10:35:15 AM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Aria

Yes Trump (and Ronald Reagan) are good examples of commonsense triumphing over IQ.


29 posted on 11/07/2023 10:35:27 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: mabarker1

I have yet to meet a person who has earned a Ph.D. and understands what Joe Biden is saying ...


30 posted on 11/07/2023 10:36:09 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Just remember, the Canadian truckers are proving to be smarter than most doctors


31 posted on 11/07/2023 10:36:24 AM PST by MNDude
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Even being kind, a PhD is a guarantee of deep specialized knowledge in a narrow field. Nothing more.


32 posted on 11/07/2023 10:37:22 AM PST by bigbob
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To: quilterdebbie
“He was ranking intelligence based on his point of view and not taking in other point of views.”

She was mindlessly regurgitating "diversity, inclusion, equity" rhetoric, yet had the (second?) least to offer. The Marine she was sneering at shows significantly greater cognitive ability than she does.

33 posted on 11/07/2023 10:38:48 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Having a big mouth doesn’t prove you’re smart? Shocking!


34 posted on 11/07/2023 10:39:16 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remvove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Red Badger

That clip really does not “put her in her place.” Or anyone else.

The Marine may have plans to attend college after he leaves the Marine Corps. He may have plans to pursue an education while in the Marine Corps. The military doesn’t exactly satisfy itself with scraping the bottom of the intelligence barrel (as so many leftists love to claim). There are very good and intelligent people in the military.

Intelligence is just a measure of how likely one is to succeed in their chosen profession, career, or educational goals. Some very intelligent people choose not to (for example) get a PhD because of the demanding expectations of someone who has that level of education. They choose instead to just get a bachelor’s or master’s, where there are fewer expectations and they experience less stress in the workforce.

There are also many types of intelligence. Someone who is a top athlete in their field, like Babe Ruth or Jack Nicklaus, has a genius that few people can ever match. Yet they are not known for their intellectual achievements.


35 posted on 11/07/2023 10:39:43 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Red Badger

I can say I never met with mine ever.


36 posted on 11/07/2023 10:39:47 AM PST by pas
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To: rlmorel

..so...if I understand correctly:

You understood it perfectly.....................


37 posted on 11/07/2023 10:39:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: shotgun

+1


38 posted on 11/07/2023 10:41:42 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Red Badger

I am thinking she’s a quota PhD.
She thinks she’s brilliant but doesn’t recall how she got there.


39 posted on 11/07/2023 10:47:24 AM PST by boycott
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To: Pikachu_Dad
She had a pretty low IQ for a PhD.

She said she has her PhD in cancer biology. That seems a bit vague to me. Did she write her dissertation on cancer and received a degree in biology? Exactly, how specific was her research? Was it more like cancer studies?

When I entered college some 40+ years ago I was misplaced in a course meant to fulfill a general elective. It was Physics for Society. Would that make me a physicist? Nope. By the way, I dropped the course and replaced it with Mechanics I. I’m still not a physicist, I’m just a lowly software engineer.

Colleges have been filled with bogus courses and majors for decades. It’s quite easy for a person with average cognitive ability to get a PhD. Quite honestly, there a limited few hard sciences PhD’s worthy of having and plenty of junk science.

40 posted on 11/07/2023 10:47:59 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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