Why are the stupid cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt?

Question

Are you intelligent? If so, what is your IQ score? What do you excel in? Where do your interests lie?

Answer 1

Not to be mean, but the quote by Bertrand Russel is "The trouble with the world is the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." To return your quote, do you know who said "The height of cleverness is the ability to conceal it" ?
Second, I am intelligent and sadly full of doubt. Deviation IQ is 178. Law, Quantum Physics, Math,
I feel that I don't guage others abilities properly which leads me to the conclusion that I am the same or less than them. I spend less time paying attention to school and more to things that catch my interests. I hope to find a flaw to the theory regarding black holes and that they appear in 4's and 2's as apposed to just 2's.

Answer 2

You're asking two questions, and the fact that I'm 147-153 and dont really excel in anything and am only trying to get by is irrelevant. The relevant question is why incompetent people don't realize it and the intelligent doubt themselves. Dr. David Dunning found that that incompetent people don't have the ability to recognize competence, so they're completely unaware of their own incompetence. Highly competent people assume that most people are doing as well as themselves and judge their own personal abilities to be less than they really are. This is exaggerated at both ends of the scale, the extremely incompetent and the extremely competent.

http://home.att.net/~profmulder/Incompetence.htm

Answer 3

Are you asserting that folk who don't think are stupid and are cocksure of there motives for no longer doing so. and people who do have faith are smart yet doubt their faith? 1000's of years in the past they got here upon some guy interior the barren area reducing his foreskin off. particularly of carting him off to the humorous farm they customary his tale that he had made a %. with God. Ever because of the fact then they have been mutilating male infants until eventually now they're the right age to rejoice with the futility of it. interior the historic past of all R & S this takes the 1st prize interior the stupidity contest.

Answer 4

Because they make us feel stupid and it makes us feel doubtful of them. That's why I think they seem doubtful because we realized they are in fact smart, they just seems to make us feel like we really do fall short of them and that's the truth. And on the other hand, we think they're playing with our minds which really seems to make us feel all the more inadequate.

Answer 5

because the intelligent think of consequence. And I am not very smart!