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Being smart is a qualification.
by laurent_du 2y ago
Being smart is a qualification.
- tsimionescu 2y agoThere is no such thing as "being smart". You can be arbitrarily good at some things, and arbitrarily bad at anything else. Even the greatest physicists can have laughably naive philosophical positions. Linus Paulding, one of the greatest minds in chemistry in history, was convinced that you can cure virtually any disease with a large enough dose of vitamin C. Expertise, even the extreme peak, in one field doesn't give you expertise of any kind in another field.
- whitepaint 2y agoThis is factually wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
- tsimionescu 2y agoIQ is mostly BS. And even if it's not, it only measures the ability to learn, not the actual skills. What I wrote remains true: just because you have skills in one area (AI deciphering of hieroglyphics scroll), doesn't mean in any way whatsoever that you have skills for something entirely unrelated (administrative matters).
- muddi900 2y agoIQ is a grift. It is not a measure of intelligence, but "not stupidity". Any score over 100 means no discernable difference in intelligence. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
- ahns 2y agoWell... there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
- Pat_Murph 2y agoHo we got a random link to a irrelevant article. Pack it up boys.
- Klonoar 2y agoI'd rather have people who are smart with experience handling our inner government workings. ;P