Apr 18, 2012 1:11 AM GMT
Please note that politics are unrelated to this thread. My thoughts are just an example of the type of discussion I'm interested in.
This is kinda random, but I was just thinking about it because I'm in math class,
Even if you can do relatively basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication in your head doesn't make you good at math.
I usually ask my boyfriend to help me stay motivated to study for math because otherwise it's me staring at a page of numbers trying not to think about all the awesome things I could be doing on the Internet at that very moment.
Whenever I do a question, unless it's some first-grade level shit like 1200 + 1560 I use a calculator. My boyfriend doesn't though, because he can usually add or multiply before I can even get the numbers punched in.
Even though he has this ability, about 95% of the time (legit though, that's what I get on tests) I get the answer right. If he tries to say "oh you should do it this way [insert w/e here]" and every time I basically just explain how to do it and every time so far I've been right.
I just thought it was interesting because recently I have been finding the concept of intelligence fascinating. I've been watching a Canadian politics news show since my boyfriend watches it, and it always baffles me that there's sometimes conservative guests who are speaking in a way that makes them sound so much more intelligent than most people I know, yet through their veil of political terms and impressive words from their thesaurus, they're usually lying through their teeth and are always a complete douchebag.
I don't understand why with all of their supposed intelligence they believe such ideas as a Christian god and that Rick Santorum saying that America was a better place before 1964 and claiming such obvious bullshit as "you don't know the context under which it was said so you can't pass judgement on it" when somebody says "Hey, uh, that's pretty fuckin racist, because it wasn't until 1964 that the Civil Rights Act was passed, which allowed greater protection of the right to vote for blacks."
[b]TL;DR Let's discuss anything related to intelligence.[b]
This is kinda random, but I was just thinking about it because I'm in math class,
Even if you can do relatively basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication in your head doesn't make you good at math.
I usually ask my boyfriend to help me stay motivated to study for math because otherwise it's me staring at a page of numbers trying not to think about all the awesome things I could be doing on the Internet at that very moment.
Whenever I do a question, unless it's some first-grade level shit like 1200 + 1560 I use a calculator. My boyfriend doesn't though, because he can usually add or multiply before I can even get the numbers punched in.
Even though he has this ability, about 95% of the time (legit though, that's what I get on tests) I get the answer right. If he tries to say "oh you should do it this way [insert w/e here]" and every time I basically just explain how to do it and every time so far I've been right.
I just thought it was interesting because recently I have been finding the concept of intelligence fascinating. I've been watching a Canadian politics news show since my boyfriend watches it, and it always baffles me that there's sometimes conservative guests who are speaking in a way that makes them sound so much more intelligent than most people I know, yet through their veil of political terms and impressive words from their thesaurus, they're usually lying through their teeth and are always a complete douchebag.
I don't understand why with all of their supposed intelligence they believe such ideas as a Christian god and that Rick Santorum saying that America was a better place before 1964 and claiming such obvious bullshit as "you don't know the context under which it was said so you can't pass judgement on it" when somebody says "Hey, uh, that's pretty fuckin racist, because it wasn't until 1964 that the Civil Rights Act was passed, which allowed greater protection of the right to vote for blacks."
[b]TL;DR Let's discuss anything related to intelligence.[b]
