Come on, are you suggesting that anyone could have guessed that the ugly girl and the beautiful girl in this video are actually the same person?
I’d go for the woman in the red bra, myself.
I used to wear glasses, then I got my eyes fixed last July and don’t need them anymore. Duz dat meen my intlejence dropt 2?
Let’s ask Homer. (Puts on serious glasses with semi-circular shaped lenses).
Homer: “Has anyone recently deposited any cheques for $25,000 in our bank account”?
Marge: “No”.
Homer: (takes off glasses). “Ahhhhh.”
*Playing chess .
*Liking classical music, opera, and ballet.
*Being big on NPR and PBS.
*Reading the NYT and The New Yorker .
*Soi-disant “serious fiction”.
Ham Radio License. Don’t make you smart, but makes you a fucking Nerd.
People seem to think medical practitioners are way, way more intelligent and/or scientifically knowledgeable than they usually are.
That may have been the case in the past. But with the rise of microbreweries and IPA-sobs and the like, the world of beer is now just as riven with pretension as wine.
Peppering your speech with Latin tags and/or poetry quotations.
In general, a native English speaker who reads Latin is considered more intelligent than a native Spanish speaker who is fluent in English.
Private education proves that your parents could afford the fees, not that you’re smart.
Goes without saying - we are all 'smart over here…
Aren’t you employing extreme selection bias here? Half of the students where?
An’ over ‘ere, as well, an’ all. Innit?
I don’t know about where you are, but around here a decent red wine is cheaper per ml of alcohol than a decent beer. It’s an image thing.
The craft beer community would like a word…
Back when John T. Molloy wrote Dress for Success, a poll he did said a British accent was positively associated (by Americans) to intelligence and class.
When I was in grad school for mechanical engineering, I roomed with some medical students. They studied an awful lot, but mostly it seemed like just a shitload of memorization.
Doctorin’ is a whole lot more than memorization. But I have a theory, of course:
Their brains are so saturated with their medical knowledge - often a very specialized sliver of medicine - that they may not have the capacity to, say, know how to sort a Word document.
mmm
This thread is about things that are wrongly associated with intelligence. I am beyond certain that being a medical practitioner is correlated with higher intelligence.
Over-correlated, in popular perception, maybe. But there is no way on earth it is not correlated.
For whatever its worth, I trach English, Government, and Economics. People are orders of magnitude more impressed by Economics than the other two. In reality, it’s the easiest and more straightforward subject of the three.
That’s the entirety of my point.
Assuming that intelligence shows a normal distribution in Canada I’d say that at least 1/3rd of Canadians requiring corrective vision (that is 24% of the total amount of Canadians) have an intelligence below the Canadian average. Probably more.
Assuming a normal distribution… aw, never mind.