Fantastic Take on the DIfference Between Intelligence and Stupidity
This morning Gruber had a re-tweet about the real take on stupidity, and the original tweeter referenced this Wikipedia page. It's priceless.
It talks about the reason that so many uneducated (stupid) people are so sure of themselves, and so many really intelligent people are not. The crux, in my opinion, is that those with more knowledge know how much they don't know. Those that know very little feel they have it all pretty much under control.
Yeah.
From the article:
The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people.
which also includes this fabulous quote from Bertrand Russell:
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
This helps me feel much better about what I've been feeling lately. It made me giggle... it's made me feel much better about where I've been, where I'm going, and how I'm going to get there. What a lift.