I'm not saying I think everyone on HN is doing their homework. I'm saying that if you want to make sure you're not running yourself in circles and letting your

I'm not saying I think everyone on HN is doing their homework. I'm saying that if you want to make sure you're not running yourself in circles and letting your own previous assumptions dominate your ongoing judgment, you should be doing your homework. If you don't keep doing your homework you will almost certainly fall into that trap. It wouldn't surprise me if the level of correlation between intelligence and "doing your homework" was near-0, to be honest, but that's just a guess in part based on people's behaviors on HN. ;)