So, I saw this woman. She looked good, so I said hi. ;-)
She’s from DC. (That’s bad)
She’s an attorney. (That’s worse)
She works at the DOJ. (Oh, hell no)
I figured she was a lost cause, but I decided to see if I could get some inside scoop from her. She laughed that everybody in the city of DC is an attorney. (I don’t find that funny)
I asked her what she thought about the Sussmann indictment. (Who?)
She has no idea who Michael Sussmann is, much less that he was indicted. She has no idea who John Durham is.
She works on the civil side of things, not criminal. But still. She is a fucking attorney in fucking DC, and she works at the D.O. fucking J. Hello! Anybody home?
She told me that when a federal government employee gets fired, they have due process rights. I thought, yeah no shit, everybody has due process rights. I told her everybody has due process rights, and she really could not comprehend the concept that everybody has rights. She seemed to think that federal government employees “are in a privileged position” (her words) and that’s why they have due process rights. For a seemingly intelligent woman, this chick is clueless.
I left the conversation thinking that this is exactly what we see with so many doctors. Both doctors and attorneys are taught a very narrow slice of the truth of their professions, and then they have blinders on to anything that is not within the scope of what their professors, bosses, and co-workers spoon-feed to them. They have no knowledge beyond their tunnel vision. Much of what they think they know is not true. And there is a lot of truth that they are completely unaware of.
And these attorneys in DC have an obvious arrogance about them. They think they are on the top of the food chain. They think they have somehow “made it.” The reality is the federal government is at the bottom of the food chain. They are servants. Nothing more.
I also listened to an interview on the radio where a lawyer was talking about how so many judges have been “fooled” (that was the word used) by claims of the 1905 Supreme Court case related to mandating vaccines. He said it was a very narrow ruling (only applied to a specific situation, not related to what we are seeing now), and even that was overturned later by the Supreme Court. It seems that lawyers are bamboozeling judges into believing that the court case is relevant when it is not. But apparently, judges are too lazy or too stupid to read.
Clown World.
Someone else posted on this board about IQ.
People with high IQ tend to be great in a scope of knowledge that is given to them.
But to ADAPT their thinking. That's where they fall short. You have a lot of high IQ doctors and lawyers out there.
But have not idea how to adapt beyond what was told to them. Which is why you have tons of "smart high IQ" people in Asia.
But if you notice.
A lot of them will fall what the powers to be say like sheep.
Current schooling is about short-term memory, not intellect, wisdom, or critical thinking.
Can you remember what the text book said, and name the 3 causes of 'X'?
If yes, you will do well on the test, get an A grade, and be considered "smart."
If you have a hard time remembering, you won't.
Simply studying long hours (the secret of the Asians) by repetitive reading will make it sink in long enough to do well on the test. But that does not necessarily translate to the real world, where the tests are harder to identify and solve.
The Chinese are good copy cats and thieves of technology, but they create nothing.
None of that has to do with critical thinking. The farmer's kid who only finished a 6th grade education, but learned how nature works and the process of trial and error will probably have better critical thinking skills than the kid who went to Harvard because he spent all non-school hours studying and memorizing for the next test.
Home School.
Well said
Yes - a close family member was an administrative assistant for an engineering dept of a college in the Midwest that has started accepting a very high number of Chinese students. ($$$) she said cheating and plagiarizing was a HUGE issue with these kids. They would have to be talked to repeatedly about it. I also watched a documentary once about how few university spots there are in China and competition is fierce. The amount of ways they cheat on entrance exams was pretty impressive. Many devices, crib notes, etc are confiscated ....
I hated math. I have a decently high IQ but math is not my forté. I remember in Algebra class, I used to work out my own way to come up with the answers even though it wasn’t the “proper” way to do it. That came in handy when I took my ASVAB test for the military years later. I scored high enough overall that they told me to pick whatever career I wanted.
This.
I was watching videos from an American who taught English to kids in China, he was saying that as a fun assignment he asked the kids to draw something they wanted. The kids asked for clarification, and he said - for example, a lion or a car. He was clear that those were just two examples - this wasn't the fault of a language barrier, either - all the kids drew either a lion or a car. Having imagination in China makes you stand out, and their whole culture is based around being terrified of standing out.
Exactly this!
You can measure someones intelligence by how much they understand they dont know
100%. I know most if not all of us in this forum are cognizant of our own limitations, and that’s why we’re here—to research, bounce ideas off each other, etc.
It's all about "application" of what you've learned.
literally me reading that: ... ... ... ...what the fuck is blinker oil?
me: oh...
some call it a blinker, the auto manufacturers call it a turn signal, I like call it "that thing nobody ever fucking uses," lol.
A similar joke you may have heard is asking an apprentice to get a 'left handed screw driver'.
Lmao, funny you should mention that, I just got done reading R.G. Letourneau's autobiography, and in it, he talked about "left-handed Cadillacs," car's that cranked in the opposite direction that other cars did, so when you cranked it over (by hand, this was around the beginning of the twentieth), if it reversed on you, it might break your arm.
LOL. In high school, some of us guys used to talk about car stuff with the girls. If they had a problem, we would listen and say ...
Dude #1: Hmm, sounds like it could be your carburetor belt.
Girl: Really? Is that bad?
Dude #2: (trying to keep from laughing hysterically) No, that's not good. Could even be your camshaft excavator.
Girl: Oh, no!
Dude #3: (on the floor laughing, he couldn't help it)
We used to do the exact same thing, but it would be in slow moving traffic at red lights. Me : “Hey, your razivator is dripping reticulator fluid!” Driver with big eyes: “Is that bad? Should I pull over??” 😂😂😂
“Well you need a new johnson rod in there."
“Oh, a Johnson rod. Yeah, well better put one of those on”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCe6NOBUut0
Stop signs with the white line around the edges are optional. You don’t have to stop for those.... it’s just a suggestion.
Blaine Bug: Intelligence Quotient is not necessarily correlated with memorization skills. I.Q. measures sophistication in reasoning and problem-solving. This will seem more obvious to you if you ever take an I.Q. test. The material is not as concerned with data you may or may not know, but with your ability to apply mental skills to problems that are presented to you for the first time.
I remember taking the test in school, not knowing it was any special test. Later, I found out it was an IQ test. That's because they told my mother that I tested at the genius level. I don't know if they explain this to all parents.
The test as about your ability to apply abstract reasoning. It is conceptual, not based on memorized facts. Part of it is mathematical (I was always the #1 student in math), and the other part is verbal (females generally do better on this part).
Both males and females tend to do about the same, overall, with the males scoring higher in math and females in verbal.
However, the bell curve for each sex is very different. Females are generally bunched up in the middle (within 1 standard deviation), but males have a "fat-tailed" bell curve. There are far more males at each extreme of the curve. There are about 10 times more males than females that test at the genius level, and a correspondingly higher number of males than females who test at the extreme stupid level -- which, along with strength and testosterone levels, explains why criminal behavior is primarily a male trait.
This is sometimes called the "Greater Male Variability Hypothesis" and I tend to agree with it as it explains things well IMO.
Nature can afford to roll the dice more with men to have greater genetic variability in the hopes of knocking it out of the park.
With women on the other hand, nature tends to play it safe, as they're the only ones who can have have babies and are critical to survival of the species.
Losing 50% of men is less bad than losing 50% of women from a survival standpoint, as the remaining men can still get it on with multiple women.
This exact scenario has happened in our evolutionary past.
It's the only way I got my degrees. Theories were memorized. And so were many other things.
I took a break to raise a kid before I went back for my masters bc my hubby kept moving and I couldn't finish up my masters in order to work in my field. I finally did it though, but I was in my early 40's when I completed my masters degree.
At least I had some life experience before I went back to complete my masters degree. I saw how completely ignorant some of the younger generation were. Many of them couldn't even write a complete sentence. Arrrrrrg! i had to go to a course for that!
To be completely HONEST the real learning came with on the job training.
Yes! I started asking that question at 15. Why be on the hamster wheel to make good grades in HS, to make good grades in college, to work your brains out and be at the top of your field. What’s the point? Through a round about way, I ended up trying my job at 19. After that, I went back and finished my degree, but had zero interest in my classes. I already had jobs lined up when I got that piece of paper, so it didn’t matter. And exactly 1 college class applied to my job ... the profession I’ve now had for 28 years.
First time I tried to go to college, I had a COMP course, and I kid you not, it was me and this one south korean woman who were the only ones who didn't need a DOL refresher...
Same, fren. I have extensive knowledge of anything Harry Potter, gardening, behavior analysis, international politics, and British Royal history, but ask me about anything else, and I look at you like my brain has left the building 🤣
Well if the SHTF you can find one of the old royal gardens & feed yourself 😁
Harry Potter eh? You probably wouldn’t be interested that me and the wife visited the Elephant House café in Edinburgh (although Rawling’s recently said that although she did some writing there, that she had actually already been writing Harry Potter for a couple years and started in a flat in England). We also visited Greyfriars Kirkyard cemetery where the real Thomas Riddle is buried. Coolest cemetery I’ve ever seen in my life.
Awesome! I visited Leavesden Studios on a UK trip years ago and toured the movie set. Knocked on the Dursley’s front door and all. I’m definitely what you’d call a Potterhead, when the books came out I was the same age as Harry, so they grew up with me 😊
Have you studied much before William of Normandy?
Indoctrination is not intellect. These people would thrive in factories doing repetitive work that once you learn u end up on auto pilot.
they even look uo case law to tell them What to think. They are helpless with out their masters direction.
I had a half hour conversation with a lawyer who was trying to convince me to do something on our business. (I refused.) He was the chief legal counsel for a major conservative organization I'm sure you have heard of.
The conversation was way before Comey was fired. He had worked with Comey back in the Bush White House. I told him how Comey had covered for the Clintons and was criminal. He Said he thought Comey was just "very independent". He had no idea. I was amazed that little old me out in the boonies would know more about what was going on than a guy who was living it.
High IQ for memory. Not for logic, deductive reasoning or systems analysis. Or they are just paid off by pharma.