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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:uesdrj$20l0k$
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On 9/24/2023 3:36 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> "Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:ueptkl$1eu42$
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> Anyway, as I recall it they were talking about some sort of study where
> the general consensus was that nearly every man feels like they are
> smarter than everybody else, but interestingly they found that was not
> the case with women.
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> That raises the question of what "smart" really is,
No, I don`t think so. Its whatever the person defining smart thinks
makes them superior.
Bob La Londe
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To me smartness a measure of how accurately one can analyze and understand a
problem or situation, and solve or adapt to it, how close to reality their
mental model is. Whether or not they need to feel superior to others is an
emotional rather than intellectual dimension, orthogonal and perhaps
inversely proportional to their actual abilities. I found Ph.Ds more likely
to listen to my suggestions than production workers. Then they`d politely
explain exactly why I was wrong and help me learn more.
In the intellectually challenging scholastic, scientific and engineering
research environments I`ve mostly been in we were often acutely aware of our
limitations from recent experience. That`s why I wouldn`t stand under a
hoist I`d designed without testing it, buy instead of attempting to design
switching power supplies and don`t offer to weld aluminum.
When we neared graduation a professor told us not to believe that we were
now real chemists, only that we had learned enough of the basics to
understand the explanations when we took a job somewhere. It`s like learning
feeds and speeds and the controls doesn`t make one a machinist, it only
reduces their costly errors as they learn the rest.
I`ve been watching a detective show on PBS, the German "Luna & Sophie",
where the viewer knows only as much as the female detectives do and sees
them build up sometimes false guesses of who dun it, which change as the
clues accumulate. Often several suspects might have the motive and
opportunity. The killer finally confesses under pressure and guilt and then
you see the crime committed. It`s not too different from solving an
engineering problem. I read high-tech accident reports which also lead
through the puzzling clues before revealing the final conclusion.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/reports/aar-90-06.pdf
I`d taken that flight to Denver not long before.
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