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| 2017-04-05 |
| h/t Instapundit ...In "The War on Stupid People," an article for Atlantic magazine, author and journalist David H. Freedman analyses this chasm, lamenting the fetishizing of IQ, and stating that only a few decades ago, good jobs could be found based not just on IQ and education, but also more on soft factors such as "integrity, work ethic, and a knack for getting along." He alleges that "the successful and influential seem more determined than ever to freeze the less intelligent out... rather than shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity." Of course, I've seen it in academia, where it's more "war of the mediocre but socially adept against their socially awkward betters (all good scientists are, a bit, Asperger). |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/theres-no-thank-you-in-bengali/ "That’s what our educational institutions are now: seminaries. Whether their graduates can engineer bridges, heal the sick, or design critical angry birds apps is entirely secondary to their role in refreshing the priesthood–or rabbinate as may be more accurate. " |
| Posted by: newc 2017-04-05 21:37 |
| #7 The un-broken chain of Institutional idiocy is continuous as the idiots continue to make things more complex than they really are to act smart. Then, their Students become the masters of idiocy and spew it to another group as Professors"". The soon to be bankrupt young people continue to magnify the pettiness of their existence contributing to a Virtue-less Society overall, and too self important to care. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-04-05 20:23 |
| #6 "I'm afraid IQ is all too often the ability to sit still in a classroom while some pompous professor spouts bullshit." As a person with a high (measured) IQ, I can attest to that, #4 Abu. Plus the ability to take tests (usually multiple-choice, so the answer is already there). I'm sure my IQ is higher than my plumber's, but he contributes a whole lot more to our society than I do. And to those who worship |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-04-05 16:35 |
| #5 Excerpt from an online site: In 1965, while he was earning a Bachelor’s degree in economics at Yale University, Frederick Smith penned a term paper for Professor Challis A. Hall’s Economics 43A class which contained an outline for a delivery service that would use a “hub and spokes” concept to handle the routing of parcels. (This plan entails first directing packages through a central sorting facility before dispatching them onwards to their intended destinations.) Such plan did eventually form the backbone of Federal Express, a company Smith started in 1971 upon his return from Vietnam, where he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1970. A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable. Smith himself fed the acceptance of this element of the story by once stating in an offhand comment about the term paper “I guess I got my usual gentlemanly C,” but in a 2002 interview Smith acknowledged “I don’t really remember what grade I got. I probably didn’t get a very good one, though, because it wasn’t a well-thought-out paper.” (Questioning Professor Hall, the man who bestowed the grade, is out of the question because he died in 1968.) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-05 12:58 |
| #4 I'm afraid IQ is all too often the ability to sit still in a classroom while some pompous professor spouts bullshit. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-05 11:47 |
| #3 p.s. The educated high IQ elites produce high IQ children e.g. Chelsea Clinton. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-05 11:13 |
| #2 Someone mention the Bell Curve? Why that's racist! /sarc |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-05 09:24 |
| #1 The title at the site is: Why ‘Hillbillies’ Don’t Do Networking So networking only applies to the "elites" as defined by Ivy League pedigrees? I doubt that hillbillies in our part of the country would have survived had they not had social networking as it is called. the fetishizing of IQ. There's an interesting turn of phrase. Academics have apotheosized IQ to the exclusion of everything else? Well, there are research dollars, publications, and embracing PC also. There is genius in the ordinary. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-05 08:50 |