That reminds me of a sign I saw in Edinburgh:
“English spoken. American understood.”
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Seems like an odd choice to have to make…
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Why not both?
wan shrug
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Lest we forget.
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Is there a line in the book’s index that explains how to “rember” “Perl”?
And how to make it “Horber” if it’s not “Horb” enough?
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The article doesn’t say which Walmart this was taken at.
I actually have dyslexia (was in special-education classes and everything) and I know that this is spelled horribly.
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OK, let’s not forget Pearl Harbor - but hopefully in 200 years the memory will be embedded in useful behaviors rather than unrevealing bumper stickers.
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Walter: Am I wrong, Dude? AM I WRONG?
Dude: Yeah, maaaaan. In this case you’re wrong, and an asshole.
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Oof. Man, it pains me to say it, but that is one profoundly stupid article.
I’m kinda sleepy since it’s well after 2:00 AM here, so I’m not going to go on at length right now. But here are a couple of nearly contradictory quotes from this article:
Whatever advantages high intelligence confers on employees, it doesn’t necessarily make for more effective, better employees.
But previously he said:
Studies have furthermore found that, compared with the intelligent, less intelligent people are more likely to suffer from some types of mental illness, become obese, develop heart disease, experience permanent brain damage from a traumatic injury, and end up in prison, where they are more likely than other inmates to be drawn to violence. They’re also likely to die sooner.
Yeah, those don’t sound like somewhat less-effective candidates for employment at all. :eyeroll:
The guy keeps conflating stupidity with ignorance and poor education, and that’s a serious mistake. Some stupid people have very expensive educations and do remarkably well for themselves even as they bring the world crashing down in their wake. I can remember one particular Ivy League dolt who even got to be President. Is it intolerably mean of me to mock him for all the stupid things he did and said in public?
even as high intelligence is increasingly treated as a job prerequisite, evidence suggests that it is not the unalloyed advantage it’s assumed to be. The late Harvard Business School professor Chris Argyris argued that smart people can make the worst employees, in part because they’re not used to dealing with failure or criticism.
Spoken like one of what Freedman called “the nonsmart.” Does he really think that smart people never fail or face criticism? And does he think that someone who has little experience with failure will be “the worst” because they will inevitably fail harder (and less gracefully) than one of those salt-of-the-earth dipsticks who fails every week?
Hey, I wish I’d ever come across one of those companies that hires based on a high SAT score, since I was solidly in the 99th percentile. But since my three years of community college resulted in no actual degree, I’ve just had to work my way up in my industry through developing a reputation for integrity, hard work, and yeah… smarts. For not being dumb enough to make the same mistake twice.
In spite of what this chucklehead insists “the evidence suggests,” anyone with more than half a wit can tell you that high intelligence is, in fact, an advantage, even taking into account the baggage that sometimes accompanies it.
I just happen to be someone who wasted a lot of his advantages, but not one of my employers ever had occasion to wish I were somewhat stupider.
The guy brings up solid points about early child education, but otherwise this is indefensible clickbaity horseshit.
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The quote I was interested in was
Those who consider themselves bright openly mock others for being less so. Even in this age of rampant concern over microaggressions and victimization, we maintain open season on the nonsmart. People who’d swerve off a cliff rather than use a pejorative for race, religion, physical appearance, or disability are all too happy to drop the s‑bomb: Indeed, degrading others for being “stupid” has become nearly automatic in all forms of disagreement.
I was on mobile at the time so was hard to paste the link and the quote.
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Yeah, and it’s a well-taken point that we shouldn’t be swaggering along swinging our SATs around and lording it over the tiny-brained… people can be painfully arrogant about that, and I’m particularly bad at it. I mean, I’m not even all that smart, and yet I blithely insult the intelligence of a half-dozen perfectly respectable people every day.
And I oughta be ashamed of myself for that.
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Hey, it works for the TSA.
Who needs a limo when they’ve got that sweet truck?
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Wel, except that reports on Dubya from people that actually worked with him, even his political enemies, actually have said that it was a persona and he was, in fact, quite perceptive and intelligent, reading all the briefs, asking good questions, etc.
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I’d read that differently. For me, the key phrase is “consider themselves bright”. Now, it’s an example of the writer screwing up again, because just because one considers oneself bright doesn’t mean it is true. It circles back to what was mentioned before: “smarts” are a constellation of knowledge, experiences, social position… and then finally intelligence.
I’ve had lots of people assume I’m not that bright because I have a blue collar background, or because I didn’t go to the same schools as them, or because I don’t have the same interests as them. I’ve met physicists who took it for granted that all smart people became physicists, and likewise met engineers, lawyers, and doctors who assumed the truly smart people would have followed the same career paths they did, like the same music they do, have the same reading and TV-watching habits.
But that’s just prejudice, and an unwillingness to acknowledge that intelligence manifests in different ways. A dyslexic person may be a terrible speller, but if they’re intelligent they’ll recognise and value the importance of communication skills, whether they are personally easy for them to achieve or not.
The thing about the “Perl Horbor” sign is that it shows signs of not valuing or caring if their sign is easy to read – yet they put it on the tailgate of their truck, which indicates they do want everyone to read it. That’s the stupid part. A smart person who couldn’t spell would find a way to ensure it was transcribed correctly.
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If there’s a ‘war’ on stupid people, then the stupid people are “winning.”
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