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Smug PhD gets put in her place
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:08 pm
This was entertaining
LINK
Thats a direct link to the shorter video, the 12:00 video is in the comments if you want to watch the full thing.
A group of 6 strangers is asked to introduce themselves, then rank everyone in order of IQ - which they had taken an IQ test earlier.
This Ph.D. from South Carolina is smug and ranks the "I went to the military out of high school" guy last. He ends up being third and she is dead last.
It's a decent look a society. Society celebrates Ph.D's, Ivy Leaguers, etc. and we still think that they are exceptional. We crap on flyover state males that are smart but not academic.
I've told this story before, but when I was a senior at Mississippi State circa 1997, I had a professor that was one of the dumbest people I had ever encountered. She introduced me to the concept of a "Stupid Smart Person," which I have encountered in my career in K-12 and higher education repeatedly over the years.
At the time (22 years old), my worldview was shocked. How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic? I convinced myself it was a one-off and moved on. But over the years, I can think of several (mostly women) who had reached a terminal degree but I'm not sure they could actually do anything.
And they all had the same thing in common - smug, feminist, unmarried (or divorced). I refuse to respect them anymore. I have a friend who is an actual brain surgeon who demands we call him by his first name. There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.
LINK
Thats a direct link to the shorter video, the 12:00 video is in the comments if you want to watch the full thing.
A group of 6 strangers is asked to introduce themselves, then rank everyone in order of IQ - which they had taken an IQ test earlier.
This Ph.D. from South Carolina is smug and ranks the "I went to the military out of high school" guy last. He ends up being third and she is dead last.
It's a decent look a society. Society celebrates Ph.D's, Ivy Leaguers, etc. and we still think that they are exceptional. We crap on flyover state males that are smart but not academic.
I've told this story before, but when I was a senior at Mississippi State circa 1997, I had a professor that was one of the dumbest people I had ever encountered. She introduced me to the concept of a "Stupid Smart Person," which I have encountered in my career in K-12 and higher education repeatedly over the years.
At the time (22 years old), my worldview was shocked. How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic? I convinced myself it was a one-off and moved on. But over the years, I can think of several (mostly women) who had reached a terminal degree but I'm not sure they could actually do anything.
And they all had the same thing in common - smug, feminist, unmarried (or divorced). I refuse to respect them anymore. I have a friend who is an actual brain surgeon who demands we call him by his first name. There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.
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Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:10 pm to anc
This is old.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:11 pm to anc
I’m sure I would rate higher than a lot of people with a Masters or a PhD simply because I have the ability but didn’t have the need since my field only requires a Bachelor’s.
The most insufferable bitch I have EVER had as a teacher insisted on being called “Dr” despite having only completed her coursework and not her dissertation. And she took it out on all of us that she was having to teach a bunch of HS freshmen because that was the job open when she arrived. She didn’t last the year.
The most insufferable bitch I have EVER had as a teacher insisted on being called “Dr” despite having only completed her coursework and not her dissertation. And she took it out on all of us that she was having to teach a bunch of HS freshmen because that was the job open when she arrived. She didn’t last the year.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:16 pm to anc
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How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic?
What was her PhD in?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:18 pm to anc
My wife has a PhD and last night she couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the TV.
It was off.
It was off.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:31 pm to anc
Those are known as over educated idiots. We see those in engineering a lot. The engineers with the bachelors degrees and masters degrees actually know how to design a project. The over educated idiots have no clue how to manage a project. Their focus is so narrow and everything to them is an academic exercise with no understanding of cost or schedule. They don’t understand How to make assumptions based on prior experience or how actually build things. I’ve watched them spin their wheels. The generalists have a wider experience base.
My dad was a tool and die maker. The professors would bring him drawings of a reactor that They wanted him to build He would have to fix the sketch for them for to make the reactor actually work. He understood it better than they did. He had a high school diploma and four years in the US Army Air Force. He was very intelligent. The professors were educated. Not the same thing.
My dad was a tool and die maker. The professors would bring him drawings of a reactor that They wanted him to build He would have to fix the sketch for them for to make the reactor actually work. He understood it better than they did. He had a high school diploma and four years in the US Army Air Force. He was very intelligent. The professors were educated. Not the same thing.
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:42 pm to anc
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This Ph.D. from South Carolina is smug and ranks the "I went to the military out of high school" guy last. He ends up being third and she is dead last.
And to top it off her IQ was only 112
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:44 pm to anc
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How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic?
We romanticize intellect a bit too much sometimes. Someone with a PhD like hers (Cancer Biology, I think she said) has a very high level of knowledge about a fairly singular area. She might be able to recite possible genetic determinants for various forms of cancer from memory, but she likely has no clue what the air pressure should be in her tires. A great example of this is that Einstein had difficulty tying his shoes.
We often want to think of people with PhDs as being smart in a very general sense (ie: well and deeply versed on a whole host of topics, like the Professor from Gilligan's Island), but generally they aren't.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:45 pm to anc
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ranks the "I went to the military out of high school" guy last
shite tests are real.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:08 pm to anc
Educated idiots. I have hired... and fired quite a few over the years.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:21 pm to anc
Academics are THE WORST!
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:28 pm to anc
quote:In fairness, the work environment is different. Your MD friend is assuredly referred to as "Dr" at the hospital.
I have a friend who is an actual brain surgeon who demands we call him by his first name. There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:36 pm to anc
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There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.
Are you saying Dr. Jill isn't a REAL doctor?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:47 pm to anc
Without watching it, is this the one where she does the little marionette dance when talking about herself?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 4:00 pm to anc
I employ medical doctors for a living. My wife teaches at a major university.
Between the two, I am very well acquainted with the academic type. Usually (not always, as evidenced by the OP) high IQs (as currently measured, anyway), but a disproportionate percentage IME have lower than average EQs (Emotional Quotients).
One of the dumbest people I have ever met was a double board-certified medical specialist I employed. Not because he lacked intelligence in an academic sense, but because he was emotionally stuck at around age 11.
You wouldn't believe it if I told you some of the stuff he would routinely do.
Several of my wife's colleagues are the same way (although nobody I have ever met was quite as bad as this guy).
People who are academically oriented have an entirely different context for life and the world. The currency and culture of academia is backwards from most of the rest of the world.
And people who end up in academia, most of them never experience anything else, so their culture is backwards and they don't know it or realize it.
Between the two, I am very well acquainted with the academic type. Usually (not always, as evidenced by the OP) high IQs (as currently measured, anyway), but a disproportionate percentage IME have lower than average EQs (Emotional Quotients).
One of the dumbest people I have ever met was a double board-certified medical specialist I employed. Not because he lacked intelligence in an academic sense, but because he was emotionally stuck at around age 11.
You wouldn't believe it if I told you some of the stuff he would routinely do.
Several of my wife's colleagues are the same way (although nobody I have ever met was quite as bad as this guy).
People who are academically oriented have an entirely different context for life and the world. The currency and culture of academia is backwards from most of the rest of the world.
And people who end up in academia, most of them never experience anything else, so their culture is backwards and they don't know it or realize it.
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 11/6/23 at 4:14 pm to anc
I have a PhD and would likely do very well on an IQ test.
Not necessarily because I’m that much smarter than others, but because I regularly give IQ tests and already know the answers.
Not necessarily because I’m that much smarter than others, but because I regularly give IQ tests and already know the answers.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 4:31 pm to anc
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At the time (22 years old), my worldview was shocked. How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic? I convinced myself it was a one-off and moved on. But over the years, I can think of several (mostly women) who had reached a terminal degree but I'm not sure they could actually do anything.
And they all had the same thing in common - smug, feminist, unmarried (or divorced). I refuse to respect them anymore. I have a friend who is an actual brain surgeon who demands we call him by his first name. There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.
My friend's late father had PhD in Mathematics. He was literally a mathmatical genius.
He would seriously get pissed if you called hims "Dr." My family knew theirs for years. We knew he was a professor at a local university. Then one day we saw a newspaper article that referred to him by the Dr. prefix. When my mother asked is she should call him "Dr". He laughed and said, "not if you know what's good for you, you won't."
He was one of those "smart" smart people. Had the PhD and a lot of common sense to go with it.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 5:16 pm to anc
Most of the smartest people I've met in my life are generally laid back and enjoy life. Most of the dumbest people I've met are loud and seek out positions of authority. I've met a lot of politicians .... basically used car salesmen without the work ethic.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 6:50 pm to anc
Lolz at the two smug women
Ummm I have dyslexia and ADD so I don’t think an I Q test is a good way of measuring my intelligence, especially when the white marine guy was ranked ahead of me. My EQ is higher.
WTF is up with the word salad trying to save face.
Ummm I have dyslexia and ADD so I don’t think an I Q test is a good way of measuring my intelligence, especially when the white marine guy was ranked ahead of me. My EQ is higher.
WTF is up with the word salad trying to save face.
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