I know a lot of "educated idiots", people with Masters and even one with a Doctorate that haven't the smarts God gave a bee. What they are good at it is taking tests, recognizing the things the test writers are going to want to hit, at "playing the game" and giving the answer the instructor wants no matter what they think the "right" answer is. I imagine most of the test writers are similar people. I know a bunch of other people that don't have much education that can handle a wide variety of things much more smoothly and successfully than the educated guys. I don't know who is "smarter". I don't know that it matters really. A lot of it comes down to opinion I think. If I see someone who takes a completely different thing away from an event than I do, does that make them less intelligent or more intelligent than me? I don't know. What I do know is that in my experience, the more educated a person is, the more rigid their thinking tends to be. They tend to want things to respond to what they believe to be "the way things are", I find them inflexible. I find most tend to be more arrogant the more education they have. They tend not the question their judgement as much as a less educated person might. I use the qualifiers line "tend" and 'might" because there are going to be a lot of exceptions.
One other thing I've noticed is that we tend to think more highly of people who agree with our conclusions, but that put it in more eloquent terms than we might. What that shows, I don't know, but I've rarely met someone who admires the guy who proves them dead wrong and puts it in plain spoken terms. That's diplomacy I suppose, a field where intelligence is so abstract as to be a meaningless term.
In the end, I'm dumber than a rock and have little education beyond high school. The courses I did take were the equivalent of Masters level college courses in law. I did well, maintaining a 3.8 GPA, but that doesn't mean I understood the material so much as I understood what answers I was supposed to put down. Intelligent or trainable? I leave that up to you.
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