Highly intelligent people also recognize that “unknown unknowns” exist.

Moderately intelligent people trust “the science” and think that we are only a few years away from understanding everything about our world. They are focused on “known unknowns”, for example fusion energy. Fusion energy production is a thing that we can’t get to work right now, but we think that we will figure it out soon. We know that we don’t fully understand it, however, we do “know” that fusion exists.

However, highly intelligent people understand that there are things that we are not even aware that we don’t know, “unknown unknowns”. Educated intelligent people understand the great number of scientific anomalies. Have you heard of the “corona heating anomaly”? Most people haven’t. For some reason, some locations in the Sun’s corona can be much much hotter than the surface of the sun. Given that solar fusion requires high pressure and that radiant heat usually becomes weaker we have no idea exactly why or how this energy is being produced. So for most people this is an “unknown unknown”.

Donald Rumsfeld was a bastard but he did give us that little nugget.

Highly intelligent people also recognize that “unknown unknowns” exist.

Moderately intelligent people trust “the science” and think that we are only a few years away from understanding everything about our world. They are focused on “known unknowns”, for example fusion energy. Fusion energy production is a thing that we can’t get to work right now, but we think that we will figure it out soon. We know that we don’t fully understand it, however, we do “know” that fusion exists.

However, highly intelligent people understand that there are things that we are not even aware that we don’t know, “unknown unknowns”. Educated intelligent people understand the great number of scientific anomalies. Have you heard of the “corona heating anomaly”? Most people haven’t. For some reason, some locations in the Sun’s corona can be much much hotter than on the surface of the sun. Given that solar fusion requires high pressure and that radiant heat usually becomes weaker we have no idea exactly why or how this energy is being produced. So for most people this is an “unknown unknown”.

Donald Rumsfeld was a bastard but he did give us that little nugget.

Highly intelligent people also recognize that “unknown unknowns” exist.

Moderately intelligent people trust “the science” and think that we are only a few years away from understanding everything about our world.

However, highly intelligent people understand that there are things we don’t know that we’re not even aware we don’t know them, unknown unknowns.

Donald Rumsfeld was a bastard but he did give us that little nugget.