Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
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IQ measures ability to understand and manipulate abstract ideas,,,,NOT ABOUT REALITY.. Reality is self correcting by Truth (eventually).
Reality does not correct.
Reality does not change.
Reality is objective; not subjective.
Reality is "everything that exists."
What does change is our understanding or perspective OF reality.
There is no such thing as "your reality" vs. "my reality."
There is just (a) reality, and (b) my perspective of reality vs. (c) your perspective of reality.
Our perspective is how we view reality, with all our personal experiences, understandings, misunderstandings, and biases.
Both concrete concepts ("this is a table") and abstract concepts ("I would build a better table by doing such and such") are all part of reality.
It's just that these abstracts are within our own minds, which exist within us, and we exist in reality.
IQ measures one's ability to ACCURATELY understand abstract concepts. It has nothing (or not much) to do with concrete things or ideas, but it is ALL part of reality (which can be defined as "everything that exists," which includes both concrete things and abstract ideas).
abstract ăb-străkt′, ăb′străkt″ adjective
Considered apart from concrete existence.
Not applied or practical; theoretical.
Un observed ,understood , recognized Truth (facts) are real buy may not be part of current reality (of mankind) but upon discovery mans' reality changes. So yes , as Schrödinger's Cat Reality does not and does change,
No, you are taking that quote out of context.
The iPhone existed as a concept BEFORE it existed as a concrete thing you could use.
It takes a different level of intelligence to create it from nothing but an idea, versus to use it when it is already in your hand and connected to phone towers and the internet.
Reality itself did not change. The idea did not exist until someone thought of it. Then, it only existed as a concept. Finally it existed as a concrete thing.
But reality itself is "everything that exists." Something new can come into existence (or go out of existence -- people are born and people die), but that does not change what "reality" actually ... IS.
^ BTW ...
This thread is going off topic.
My response to the OP video is that person who wrote the script has a bias about bias.
Maybe in his mind, people who favor gun control are "rational" and people who do not are "irrational."
If so, this would be a biased study that would violate its own thesis.
Thank you for the explanation of changing Reality.