On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:15:59 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: > > > > > > > On 28 Nov 2014, at 6:59 am, Kim Jones <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> Sometimes intelligence itself can be an handicap for getting the > competence. A stupid student can study the course better than a clever > student, because the clever student want to understand the details, and get > stuck on philosophical question, where the stupid student will have no > problem remembering by heart definition, and training itself to solve > problems, not even seeing that the method assumes a lot. The clever one > will think to the case where the method does not apply, and get stuck in > trying to find a better method, and fail to be able to solve the problem in > the easy case, because he is too much ambitious, and want a general method, > with a proper justification. > > > > I cannot see how anyone could not go along with this. This is a > description of "The Intelligence Trap"
For some the fact there's no evidence, and the fella behind "The Intelligence Trap" seems not to regard his theory as worth or in need of running a couple of studies. Despite the claims being fairly testable. There is some evidence high i.q. brains are more streamlined, with correspond loss of the mesh of pathways that otherwise would bulge out. Which could mean people with less high I.Q. do have a potential for uncovering strange/novel insights. It's plausible, but not as a counterweight to the relative disadvantage of a lower I.Q. But if there's a legitimate idea, there's a legitimate study that could shed some light on whether the idea is right. The fact Mr Intelligence Trap man pushes something as a theory and people 'cannot see how anyone would not go along with..." raises legitimate questions about why there's no effort at evidence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
