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Posted on 07/21/2023 8:35:13 AM PDT by bitt
"As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better educated, the easier it has been to mystify him."
So said master illusionist Harry Houdini. He said it during his spat with Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over the latter’s belief in seances and fairies. Despite being a literary genius, Conan Doyle nevertheless had some foolish ideas.
He’s not alone. Researchers have even coined ‘Nobel Disease,’ referring to the tendency for some Nobel Prize winners to embrace unconventional beliefs. Charles Richet, for instance, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but also believed in dowsing and ghosts.
Taken to the extreme, almost half of all German doctors in the 1930s joined the Nazi Party early, which was a higher rate than any other profession. Their education and intelligence did not shield them from madness – quite the opposite.
We are all deluged with attempts to manipulate us, from Big Tech and politicians to salespeople and colleagues. It is comforting to think that this is only a concern for the less intellectually gifted: we conjure up stereotypes of backwards ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘science deniers’ who need protecting from misinformation.
Yet the reality is that intellectuals are just as vulnerable to bias, if not more so. The scientific term is dysrationalia. Psychology professor Keith Stanovich researched it thoroughly and once concluded that ‘none of these [biases] displayed a negative correlation with [intelligence]… If anything, the correlations went in the other direction.’
Why might that be?
The first explanation is motivated reasoning, where logic is used to satisfy an underlying emotional motivation. Conan Doyle, for example, may have convinced himself of the truth of fairies and seances because he was struggling with the recent death of his son. With a deep psychological need to fill, Conan Doyle’s remarkable intellect simply provided the justification.
People reach the conclusions they want to reach, and then post-rationalise it – but smarter people are better at coming up with these justifications. To paraphrase George Orwell, some things are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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“I’m glad I’m not like that publican over there.”
Some people who have went to college think they must be smart ..afterall, they went to college.
Some people who have went to college think they must be smart ..afterall, they went to college.
Intelligence and logic are not on the same road.
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Intelligent people tend to think on a narrower path then the logical parson.
That also applies to Senators and Presidents. They must be smart ...
People believe what they want to believe regardless of evidence to the contrary.
Well educated idiots everywhere are ruining everything.
People believe what they want to believe regardless of evidence to the contrary.
We have voices and pencils that are unused.
The number one tenet of the Rat party!
Number 2 tenet of professional politicians, number 1 is where’s my cut?
Well played Sir!
Well played!
“They may be intelligent but they have no wisdom at all.”
They may not be intelligent at all.. but rather they are clever ..like hillary...who..as a bonus.. is also driven by the demons that possess her.
The media works..again and again.. because all they have to do is convince other people who are dumber than they are ..that they are intelligent.
That’s what I call it, too.
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“Rant as he might against the machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist—so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler and Stalin, are too big to let each other live in the same world.”
Newspapers and magazines used to be written by men to men.
They’ve been hyping the narrative lately ... the aliens removed all the “bad” people from earth.
Because brains never equates to common sense.
This put him at odds with his entire family but they are finally coming around 2 decades later in a slow ripple effect.
People are “well informed,” so they are puppets of those who”inform” them.
People rarely ask if information they regard as “reliable” is really true, and the more they consider themselves “well informed” by “reliable sources” the less likely they are to question what they think they know.
but I refer him to God who really changed his heart.
Speak the truth often, camp if they have ears, else more on to the next.
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