Plenty of academics fall into the category of "unbalanced". That being they're amazing at one hyper-specialization that gives them a huge ego, and then they as

Plenty of academics fall into the category of "unbalanced". That being they're amazing at one hyper-specialization that gives them a huge ego, and then they assume they're equally amazing at everything else and end up making complete fools of themselves. I wouldn't presume anything based solely on a credential. Intelligence is not correlated with wisdom or humility.