Dumb people confuse word salad for intelligence. Meanwhile actual intelligent people tend to be more efficient with their speech and not spam complex words everywhere unnecessarily.
IQ is not tied to vocabulary- it's a measure of one's ability to learn and implement new rules. This can be kinetic, such as a great dancer or martial artist, it can be visual like a great sculptor, or pattern-recognition like a great decoder or biologist, or verbal like academic or psychological like art of the deal, or combinations like architects or generals.
Government 'schools' only reward one or two kinds of intelligence. Academia is over populated with only that type of smart, corrupted by oligarchy and communism, so we wound up with an inflated importance of twisted isolated groups. IRL working folks appreciate street smarts, mechanical talents, etc. which are denigrated by snobby elite. We used to value the American western, for example, John Wayne and frontier code, which if you read and watch again, wasn't always black-and-white, even for the Lone Ranger, or the detective films etc. Which is why Hollywood had to rewrite and remake all the classics, to corrupt them.
For our parts, we must learn to recognize all the different types of intelligence, and celebrate and promote them in our kids as Talent on loan from God. We can also work on recognizing them in ourselves and refine the strong types while shoring up our weaker ones, and showing our kids how to do the same.
Dumb people confuse word salad for intelligence. Meanwhile actual intelligent people tend to be more efficient with their speech and not spam complex words everywhere unnecessarily.
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IQ is not tied to vocabulary- it's a measure of one's ability to learn and implement new rules. This can be kinetic, such as a great dancer or martial artist, it can be visual like a great sculptor, or pattern-recognition like a great decoder or biologist, or verbal like academic or psychological like art of the deal, or combinations like architects or generals.
Government 'schools' only reward one or two kinds of intelligence. Academia is over populated with only that type of smart, corrupted by oligarchy and communism, so we wound up with an inflated importance of twisted isolated groups. IRL working folks appreciate street smarts, mechanical talents, etc. which are denigrated by snobby elite. We used to value the American western, for example, John Wayne and frontier code, which if you read and watch again, wasn't always black-and-white, even for the Lone Ranger, or the detective films etc. Which is why Hollywood had to rewrite and remake all the classics, to corrupt them.
For our parts, we must learn to recognize all the different types of intelligence, and celebrate and promote them in our kids as Talent on loan from God. We can also work on recognizing them in ourselves and refine the strong types while shoring up our weaker ones, and showing our kids how to do the same.
The irony of it all is you know damn well these people upvote the 'r/iamverysmart' comment replies to word salad top comments.
Does that include doctors and lawyers? Since 'fuck' is my favorite word with 'faggot' a close second, does that mean I must be pretty smart?