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A PhD that doesn't know the difference between "which" and "witch"? I hope she's right, but things like that are big red flags IMO.
I don't have a PhD. In fact I don't even have a college degree. In fact I failed senior English and spend a 5th year in high school. I'm also more often than not the smartest person in the room. I'm not Einstein or anything like that but I'm definitely not stupid. I'm also dyslexic. IE EI their there they're ea ae on and on and on I constantly have to triple check everything I write and I still switch stuff. Just because someone has bad grammar or spelling doesn't mean they are stupid/uninformed.
Spent. j/k
Sigh... I rest my case.
Grammar and semantics are the last dying hope of someone who can't win by attacking the content.
I clearly typed j/k. For the stupid ones in the room, that means 'just kidding'
Anyone who tells people they are "the smartest person in the room" is almost guaranteed to not be the smartest person in the room.
LOL. You gave exactly one more fuck than I did, to go look at the comment history.
^ Mostly agree.
They might be the smartest in the room, but they are not the most emotionally stable. Emotional instability clouds judgement, nullifying whatever their intellectual superiority may or may not be.
Most of the "stable geniuses" I've ever seen or met are people that might very well recognize or suspect they are the smartest in the room, but largely don't give a fuck. Most people have an intellectual capacity great enough to understand or do anything they'll need to. Our problem as a society in general isn't mental deficiency in the form of low IQ, it's emotional instability associated with extreme indoctrination practices. Regardless of their IQ, their judgement is thoroughly clouded and impaired, and the dishonest prey on that ceaselessly.
Also, there's a quote from someone, I don't remember who. Maybe it was Einstein? It goes something like "A master at a subject can teach it to a child". Raw IQ is worthless without proper "usage" and utilization. If someone really is the brightest in the room, or really is a genius, and they have utilized this effectively, they will have only minor difficulties dealing with even severely IQ impaired individuals.
I have been around some extremely smart people in my time. What I have learned is that the smartest people are usually the dumbest when it comes to the real world and common sense type things, street smarts. They may very well have a 160 IQ but a common grifter on the street will easily separate them from their money.
Um. How else am I supposed to make sure everyone knows how friggin smart I am then huh, huh?? Gosh.
True, and I never used to say things like that. Until I realized that everyone around me always comes to me to solve their problems. A year ago, maybe two, it just hit me that I'm far smarter than I ever gave myself credit for. Heh. I graduated last in my class after spending an extra year in high school. Not because I'm stupid but frankly because I have bad language skills and I gave up on giving a shit about my GPA.
I never went to college because the one time I tried... one class I could teach it myself. I literally knew more than the teacher. It was a computer hardware class. The other was a Pascal class and the teacher was horrible. The one time I actually needed help in a class he was useless. If I'm going to teach myself then why in the hell was I paying them.
I did a job for HP at the Omni(CNN Center Atlanta) in the 90s. We installed email clients on every PC in the building. Out of ten contractors there guess who was the go to guy for fixing problem machines? Mac... NP. PC... NP. Unix... NP. Because of that job later I worked a contract doing HP-ux phone support. They interviewed hundreds of people and they hired 50-100 people to work the admin desk. You know stupid stuff, mounting drives, and adding users... changing passwords, etc. They hired TWO people to work the networking department because it was WAY harder. I was one of the those two people.
I'm not trying to toot my own horn. I'm not known for bragging. I'm just sick of having a self image that's less than reality.
Heh. My house was raided once by the police. LONG story. They had the wrong house. I'm sitting outside while they search. I'm talking to the cops. This one female cop "You're really smart aren't you." I just laughed. Needless to say I'm not in jail so they aren't so smart. They can't even raid the right house.
I admit I don't hang out with academics. I spent part of my childhood on a farm. At heart I'm a redneck, but the only person I know IRL that I'm 100% sure is smarter than me is my father. So yeah, more often than not I'm the smartest person in the room. Don't be confused. I'm not saying I'm the most knowledgeable person in the room. I'm not saying I'm the most skilled.
Thx though. I've been slacking for a very long time. Maybe its time I got up off my ass and used my smarts.
Share your knowledge. Create something from nothing. Help someone else be a better person. Commit a random act of kindness. That's what matters. Never stop learning. Stop feeling like the world owes you because you think you're smarter than most others. Go prove it.
I got to hand it to you standing up for yourself so well. Wish I had the confidence to do the same more often. Have much in common experience wise. Blacksmith did you some good gonna "toughen you up" comments, and also passed on great advise.
"Create something from nothing. Help someone else be a better person. Commit a random act of kindness."
The 'create something from nothing' is the best part and the hardest to do. Random acts of kindness don't need much planning. Something from nothing is never chaos in action. Relentless Focus always Works, just... don't give up, like Ever. People say, life's short but there's enough time for the important stuff.
A dumbass or a 20 year old dumbass.
I have a degree in engineering, along with 180 extra units, control systems engineer. I'm also an off and on member of Mensa. I've associated with the degreed people for decades.
Most can't spell. Most don't have a f**king clue on grammar. Most can't even think. Very few are critical thinkers.
In these times, placing any credence on the ownership of a degree is in essence, ludicrous. Personally, now that I'm retired, I would much rather associate with the ranchers around here than any of the phuds, ms and bs I once did. The ranchers are smarter and far more practical. And thank you, sir, for your comment.
There is a reason they are smarter. Way too often when people have studied, got degrees they become experts in everything. I have arrived in their mind and they stop learning.
People who spend their lifetime in a learning mode tend to be people that you would say have a lot of common sense. "a sound judgment derived from experience rather than study," One cannot mature and grow into their personality without constantly learning, which is what common sense is for.
I once debated getting a PhD. I spoke with a fried of mine who asked me, you know what PhD stands for right? I admitted I did not. He replies “piled higher and deeper”. I laughed pretty hard on that one. And so far he’s been proven right every time.
Absolutely.
As I am consistently reminded at this point, this has become more and more common as the English language slips from us.
You mean like ipreesheeatecha? It's phonetic.
Everyone zeroed in on the spelling is missing the big picture here FFS
That's what happens after you spend years on Voat vetting disinformation. Again, not saying she is right or wrong, rather that uncommon misspellings are often an indicator of bullshit. Ph.D's earn their doctorates by writing and publishing.
And half of them couldn't grammar their way out of a paper bag. I'm as big a stickler as the next wordnerd/editor but still don't want to see the big picture get missed here over a common misspelling of which/witch. I mean it's pretty trivial and unambiguous as to meaning in context.
I noticed that too
Maybe she was using voice to text input... She got excited and posted it before editing it.
This.
Don't go too hard on people over spelling and punctuation in this age of cell phones, which are difficult to type on, and the quick-message, no-time-for-punctuation-or-spelling-or-grammar culture of email (no hyphen, which took me years to get used to :) and SMS and IM.
And this is coming from an avowed wordnerd and former editor
Tiny red flag. FTFY.