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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

    1/ I'm not in a bad mood, but I've got one small cranky thought: I don't understand when midwits come into smart spaces and say really really dumb things. I've occasionally hung out w, say, a bunch of physics PhDs who def have a std dev or so on me, and I am well aware of that

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        2/ and tend to keep my mouth shut much more than usual. I do NOT just open my trap and say things like "so, most people probably haven't thought about this, but I've got a theory about how electrons work..."

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        3/ because OBVIOUSLY, Lana, the result of that would be revealing myself as an undereducated idiot who is saying cringe & stupid things IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE BEING CALLED ON IT IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO HAPPEN I mean, best case, there's an awkward silence and then convo resumes

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        4/ I guess the answer is Dunning Kreuger, where some folks don't even have the lay of the land enough to realize when they're not equal to others in a space / not competent to have an opinion. ...but it still shocks me.

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        5/ I gave the impression earlier that this was maybe an IQ thing, and I didn't mean to. It's not that physicists are smarter than me (well not JUST that). It's that they know about the domain. I wouldn't talk about skiing with a competitive skier either, of any IQ.

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jeremy Real

        6/ this is reasonable, but two problems: (a) dumbness is correlated, so the same person who has bad opinions on electrons has bad opinions on making chicken stock, and the electoral college, and cars >>>https://twitter.com/jeremywreal/status/1359920837541785602 …

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        Jeremy Real @jeremywreal
        Replying to @MorlockP
        This is true, but sometimes being corrected after voicing a dumb belief is the quickest way to learn. As long as you don't mind the status hit
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      7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        7/ (b) I suppress 90% of my "u r tarded" comments, and even then, I am caustic, mean, and unremittingly nasty to people, and I strive to be less like myself in that regard. So ... I just have to heard stupid things all the time, and can't respond.

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      8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        8/ Because, if I were to speak, what is there to say? "I have heard 23 opinions from you, and there have been 35 kinds of dumb in those 23 statements. Really, twitter person, I think it would be best if you never spoke to me...or even near me." ? That's not so nice.

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      9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted José Camões Silva

        9/ When you ask a person a question, they emit words. When you ask a dumb person a question, they emit dumb words.https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1359926584539447296 …

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        José Camões Silva @josecamoessilva
        Replying to @MorlockP
        You could use the Feynman approach of asking a simple question as if it was essential for your understanding of the issue, which would potentially silence the person if they had any self-awareness. (It's described in his book of correspondence, my copy of which isn't here.)
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      2. Velo‏ @VeloMontaigne 11 Feb 2021
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Midwits have "studies" tho

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      3. Carlos‏ @charlimcu 11 Feb 2021
        Replying to @VeloMontaigne @MorlockP

        Yeah, but that doesn't make you smart. Studies per se are more about opportunities rather than intelligence.

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