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!.......................
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.
For instance....Donald Trump.
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
I call someone with a phd an Elmer Phfudd.
I have yet to find one that understands what I’m saying.
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.
“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.
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!
Yes Trump (and Ronald Reagan) are good examples of commonsense triumphing over IQ.
I have yet to meet a person who has earned a Ph.D. and understands what Joe Biden is saying ...
Just remember, the Canadian truckers are proving to be smarter than most doctors
Even being kind, a PhD is a guarantee of deep specialized knowledge in a narrow field. Nothing more.
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.
Having a big mouth doesn’t prove you’re smart? Shocking!
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.
I can say I never met with mine ever.
..so...if I understand correctly:
You understood it perfectly.....................
+1
I am thinking she’s a quota PhD.
She thinks she’s brilliant but doesn’t recall how she got there.
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.
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