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I suspect students could be plotted on both axes, and probably several others (amount of background knowledge, for example) as well. It seems clear that smart/
by silentbicycle 18y ago
I suspect students could be plotted on both axes, and probably several others (amount of background knowledge, for example) as well.
It seems clear that smart/passionate will generally do well and stupid/CCL will generally fail, but that leaves smart/couldn't-care-less (know-it-alls who won't listen to anything in class) and stupid/passionate (who will probably need to put in extra time, but have a good chance).
Everyone will fall somewhere in between, of course - those are just quadrants.
- coliveira 18y agonice, you just demonstrated that caring about the topic is all that matters to have a good chance of succeeding (not how smart you are).
- andreyf 18y agostupid/passionate (who will probably need to put in extra time) I think this view ignored the correlation between "put in lots of time" and "smart". All of the smart people I know have usually put in an extraordinary amount of time studying whatever they are good at.