rant: people

[Jocephus]

in general, they are [expletive] stupid

[TimeForGuinness]

in general, they are [expletive] stupid

and they vote

[cardinalkarp]

in general, they are [expletive] stupid

and they vote

and the majority voted for the same guy you and I did

[cards2468]

in general, they are [expletive] stupid

They are very stupid. When I was accepted into SLU, I thought I would be around smart people, but most of the people here are pretty stupid too. Have a friend in actuary school at Columbia and he tells me there's plenty of stupid people there too. It just proves that no matter where you go, there will always be stupid people.

[lukethedrifter]

Hi

[JCShutout]

Maybe we're the stupid ones that they're the smart ones

[Freed Roger]

stifle Edith.

[haltz]

Maybe we're the stupid ones that they're the smart ones

heh

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The
authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these
domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make
unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4
studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.

The problem (well, I don't think it's a problem actually, people have to go through life) is that even if you are just this side of functionally retarded, usually you don't have the self-awareness to realize that you are below average intelligence. I think I'm smarter than a lot of people, because all day long people strike me as stupid, but really, who [expletive] knows. Could just be me or the way I cope or I'm too stupid to know better.

[sighyoung]

Maybe we're the stupid ones that they're the smart ones

Our stupidity does not preclude their stupidity.

[cards2468]

My girl friend actually just joined a group on facebook called "Stupid things SLU kids say" (I can't join because I think facebook is retarded so I deleted my page). There's some really funny things on there, 1 student overheard another student say, "What's botany? is that like the study of robots?"