Stupid is as Smart does, IQ=1/150 Options

[Dan]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/fron...as-studies.html

[Jakare]

That is why being humble is still a virtue no matter how much intelligence, money or power you have. You are and will always be human. Saying it is easier than doing it though.

I wonder now if all those years of instrospection have led to any relevant knowledge about myself or I have just made a collection of story tales about my life and my choices instead.

If I have ever thought I was being too critic with myself I retract. Autocritic is a usefull tool.

Great article, thanks for sharing.

[Gamma Waves]

Johan knows better than this crap. The question really was, "What's at stake here?," when people are asked these type of questions. Usually nothing, so why make an effort. Give an off the cuff answer that quickly comes to mind, and if it's wrong, who cares?

The original econ guy who used this was trying to show how illogical even logical people really are, but these questions are solved most easily by a balanced mind with good intuitive skills up front. A red flag goes up when you see questions like these from your intuitive side and says, "Oh, these are some of those semi-trick questions that you run into on certain tests." Your intuition tells you what forest you are in or SAT type questions that need a second look and some simple analytic skills to get them right. Intuition tells you where you are at, then logic helps you solve the problem, but intuition comes first.

What's interesting is that Lehrer has a chapter in one of his books that explains that people with extensive damage to the intuitive side of the brain cannot make good life choices, and they cannot intuit what data has value worth exploring. They constantly spend time on unimportant and even irrelevant information trying to logically figure things out.