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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
We were just talking about this last night. We were theorizing it was more the pressures in school. One of our girls was saying how it was driving her nuts that all of the girls in her classes just seemed (or acted) "dumb".
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Statistically speaking, most people are dumber than you. That's why you need to excel -- to take care of them. |
My late great-uncle was fond of asking, rhetorically, "would you rather be dumber than you look, or look dumber than you are?"
Looking dumb can give you a tactical advantage, sometimes. Being dumb never helps you, at all.
Note also: neither the occasional tactical advantage of looking dumb, nor the general disadvantage of actually being dumb, is gender-specific.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)