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I think people can recognize those at level N+1, but not (reliably) level N+2 and beyond. In fact they are likely to think that people much above level N+1 are
by jedharris 8y ago
I think people can recognize those at level N+1, but not (reliably) level N+2 and beyond. In fact they are likely to think that people much above level N+1 are "crazy".
Current political discourse contains lots of examples of people at level N+1 (or emulating that) convincing lots of people at level N that all the people at level N+k, k>1 are dumb, crazy or evil.
- BurningFrog 8y agoI like this quite a lot!
- YinglingLight 8y agoPolitical discourse has very little to do with IQ and very much to do with Persuasion and hallucination bubbles.
- jedharris 8y agoYes but... the level you are at is not just or mainly a function of IQ. I cannot evaluate the quality of a structural engineer who is much more skilled than me. Their cool new structural ideas could be brilliant or just terrible; I can't tell. A key issue here is how one responds to not knowing how good those ideas are. Dangerous responses: "I can't tell so they must be crazy" or "I can't tell so they must be brilliant." Accepting that one doesn't know mitigates the risk.