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It’s less IQ and more that they’re neither the ones writing the rules nor are they empowered to fix the situation.
by ascagnel_ 3y ago
It’s less IQ and more that they’re neither the ones writing the rules nor are they empowered to fix the situation.
- kazinator 3y agoActually, I'd like to make it clear I'm including the makers also.
- robocat 3y agoRobocat's law: people that think others have low IQ, tend to have low IQs. Not quite Dunning-Kruger which might have been a statistical mistake. Disclosure: former maker. I suspect it is because lower IQ people struggle to recognise higher IQ in others. Smartest guy I know said the smartest guy he knew delivered pies. Smart people are cryptic. Robocat's perverse corollary: when you look for smartness in people you can always find it: usually in an unfamiliar area.
- kazinator 3y agoAssuming that it's a statistically useful, predictive principle, you'd still have to gather a documented history of me consistently underestimating people's IQs in order to suspect that mine might be low on that basis.
- robocat 3y agoStatistical sampling: a typically academic smart reply. I believe smartness is an ability to intuitively see patterns that others do not obviously see. Our writing is full of signals and some people are adept at reading a lot into a simple comment. I'm not suggesting I'm any good at it, and unfortunately there are also a lot of people who think they're good but are not. Mentioning "IQ" at all is a huge flag: often used by people that are academically successful but that is a poor measure of how smart someone is. While my comment was written in a cheeky style, I am actually writing about my own experience as a reasonably smart person dealing with my own lack of wisdom over the years. Don't worry: I don't actually suspect you have a low IQ. Yes, completely off-topic, I shouldn't bite I know!