Knowledge Gap

[peritonlogon]

The more I read the other topics fourms the more I am convinced of this statement.

The more intelligent a person is the larger the gap between what that person knows and what he or she thinks he knows.

Or, put a different way,
Quantity of wrong opinions is positively correlated with intelligence.

Any thoughts?

I think it's a negative correlation for me. The more I learn, the more I realize that I don't know.

[hmkpoker]

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I think it's a negative correlation for me. The more I learn, the more I realize that I don't know.

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[Darryl_P]

I'd say it's a negative correlation, with Sklansky's case being experimental error.

[peritonlogon]

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I think it's a negative correlation for me. The more I learn, the more I realize that I don't know.

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Well... everyone think's it's a negativ correlation for them...

It's pretty impossible to really hold the opinion that "the more I know the more wrong things I believe"

I will try my best to believe this statement.... I will... I'll tell you my results in a week or so...

As it stands I seem to think my original statement is true for everyone else.

[imported_luckyme]

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The more intelligent a person is the larger the gap between what that person knows and what he or she thinks he knows.

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True. The responses so far seem to be referring to a different situation. "The more I KNOW, the more I realize I don't know." There is no lack of intelligent people that are amazingly ill-informed outside of some narrow categories. That's where you'll find the correlation you're referring to.

luckyme

[OtisTheMarsupial]

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I think it's a negative correlation for me. The more I learn, the more I realize that I don't know.

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Agreed. Socrates would also agree.

How are you measuring intelligence? That might be your problem.

[peritonlogon]

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Agreed. Socrates would also agree.

How are you measuring intelligence? That might be your problem.

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First of all, there is no measurement, this is vague speculating.

Second of all, Socrates was kind of a source for the idea, or at least Plato was...in fact, in learning that wisdom is knowing that you know nothing he starts with the more intelligent, managerial class, realizes they are full of crap, then he checks out the tradesmen, has a much higher opinion of them, but realizes still that they think they know things they don't. And THEN he decides he's ignorant of everything, and therefore the most knowledgable man.

If Socrates would agree...it would only be that he is the exception