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> Also, you might do well to assume that a large majority of the people here that you are trying to put down also tested in top percentages in school tests. The
by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> Also, you might do well to assume that a large majority of the people here that you are trying to put down also tested in top percentages in school tests. The audience of YC and HN is self-selected nerds.
Which is exactly why so much of the discussion here is predicated on middlebrow intellectual checkboxes instead of legitimate insight.
But if you want to keep thinking this is some genius society, I can't stop you.
- digler999 10y ago> middlebrow intellectual checkboxes instead of legitimate insight. Nice humblebrag about your superior judgement of whats "middlebrow" vs "legitimate".
- karma_vaccum123 10y agoThe post to which I was responding made the absurd claim that technically-minded/introverted individuals who score high on tests can approximate themselves to being geniuses. I really don't think it was much of a reach to ridicule that assertion...given that it is...well, ridiculous.