I'm having trouble understanding why so many here cannot grasp the use of the rhetorical device. It's used to say: The world is not how you think it is. You are

I'm having trouble understanding why so many here cannot grasp the use of the rhetorical device. It's used to say: The world is not how you think it is. You are likely so misinformed that picking randomly on this test will give you better results than relying on your knowledge. Are people seriously considering the idea that he thinks Swedish professors, his colleagues, are not as smart as chimpanzees? He has previously said this. I think this is a classical example of pg's middle-brow dismissal. What is the real point here that's painfully obvious to most people I know? Our notions of how the world is are wrong, and often they are very wrong (we seriously underestimate life expectancy and literacy, and overestimate alternative power). Amusingly, I've never seen such a deluge of comments like this about the Swedish professors. Too often people are so preoccupied with defending 'their people' that they miss the point. It reminds me of reddit threads on marijuana. It isn't that the British are dumb, it's that we all have these misconceptions.