Vocabulary/word choice, physical presentation, etc. play into this, but it's also about the content. An "educated" person has read Shakespeare, knows a limited set of facts about Socrates, can comment briefly on Aleppo...
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IMO, what's most interesting here is that assumption that being at any point in the pipeline for a "selective college" translates to "more educated." What he's actually describing is a particular milieu tiled with experiences that run largely orthogonal to intelligence/abilityhttps://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1204497701544423425 …
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...Notice that none of these are very useful to the typical person, whether or not they're in the educated professions. The deeper you look into this, the more you realize that "education" is quite often signaling the luxury of making oneself a not particularly useful thing.
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(If you doubt this, try steelmanning the years many children of the ultra-wealthy spend taking classes to learn a dead language.)
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Meanwhile, real human ability tends to develop via tinkering with construction sets (defined super broadly). A language is a construction set. Math (real math) is a construction set. All the stuff in Home Depot is a construction set. Code, chemistry, etc. etc.
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IMO, it's probably good to do a lot of building with physical toys (if you enjoy that sort of thing), because it's easier for most people to notice failures, improvements, and (most fruitful of all) entirely unexpected behavior... when they're working with physical objects
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Unfortunately, doing a lot of physical tinkering — especially with real appliances/tools rather than highly constraining prefab kits (e.g. for robotics) is all wrong for the "educated" milieu. That's the stuff of the trades. There's no time for it. What would we do, drop Latin?
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Bachelor's degree as a proxy for intelligence is disintegrating, given ~37% of Americans 25-35 have degrees. The unfortunate reality is that we don't have any standardized measure to judge intelligence or a clue how to go about it.
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Inaccurate. Contrary to its portrayal in the popular media, IQ is indeed a very reliable measurement of intelligence and reliable IQ tests (not fake ones you find online) are highly predictive of life outcomes. See this article for further info:https://aeon.co/ideas/how-clever-is-it-to-dismiss-iq-tests …
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One thing that really pisses me off is that people don't realize mechanics and electricians are smart. Not like "street smart" or "simple folk but deeply wise", I mean literally they know a lot of physics.
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Cosign. A friend of mine was a practicing electrician for 9 years before going back to undergrad and now his PhD. He is currently designing microprocessors. Electricians are smart!
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