Why it is that smart people have no common sense?

Question

And, read this before you blast me:
I have a pretty high IQ, but a lot of people ask me "are you sure you are not really blonde?"
So, why is it that people assume "smart" people have no common sense & why do "smart" people prove this?

And, don't blast me for the "blonde" reference either. That was a direct quote.

Answer 1

sometimes smart people are just book smart and not street smart which is what most people call common sense. If you haven't read it in a book then you don't know how to solve it or do it. Make sense?

Answer 2

There are many different kinds of intelligences. Some people are good at math, or language, or art or physical activities.
You can excel at one of these things, or a combination or even have a unique type of intelligence.
Some people may not have attended much school or have alot of book smarts, but have alot of life experience, which I think you are referring to as common sense.
Some people who have spent more time studying maybe haven't put into practice what they have learned.
Some "smart" people are smarter theoretically, but not technically.

Answer 3

i have grown to see a lot of smart people who have no common sense but all the book smarts in the world.
i cant really say why but i think maybe because they study while others are out learning in "the streets" (this refers to street smarts and common sense)

Answer 4

People being people, just always need to look for the flaws in others to make themselves feel good. If they see someone who they perceive as being smarter than they are, then they just say that they have more common sense. Generalizations are never true on an individual basis anyway.
Don't sweat it. You are not dead yet, so you must be doing something right :)

Answer 5

Sometimes there's the tendency to over think things. Also, sometimes things seem to make sense in theory (working from logic standpoint) but the reality can be a bit different (the world is not always logical).

Answer 6

How do you define "common sense"? Is it not the definition of "smart"? The smartest woman I've ever known - a multi-millionaire who runs her own international business - is blonde. Married, happily, to the same man for over forty years, mother of three highly successful children - two of whom are women - and a proud grandma. She even pilots her own plane. So much for the "ditzy blonde" stereotype!!

Answer 7

I agree with the first answer...however, I am blonde, & have a vary high IQ, & have lots of common sense.
It should actually be called uncommon sense...

Answer 8

Common sense isn't about calculations and therums, its about human nature and LOGIC and seeing things simply as they are...most smart people are figuring out too many things and over complicating it to use the simplicity of common sense.

Answer 9

e book sensible means that you've an more advantageous memory for issues that you does not recognize except you tried to make sure/ were experimenting with something. difficulty-loose experience is something you improve purely by residing existence; it isn't something realized all of sudden, yet slow. that is the reason there are diverse extra youthful, e book-sensible people than youthful, sensible people; it takes time to have genuine difficulty-loose experience.

Answer 10

common sense I know my husband and child dont have it is over and over again you have to remind them things that arent book sense .7 yrs later all my son can remember to do is make his bed.