When did "Book Smarts" NOT equal REAL Smarts? - Reddit Podcast
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My wife bought me an oven mitt, I asked her to grab the tray out of the oven so she could see I was actually using her gift, she forgot the glove and just burnt her hand.
Im confused. Are you supposed to be the one using it or is she?
@@oobtty I was cooking the rest of the meal, I usually just used a teatowel to grab stuff.
My little sister is good in school, helped be find a way to write essay outlines that work for me, but is rather gullible when it comes to branding. She thought eggs were dairy because they are in the same place in the supermarket, and thought only people of the same ethnicity could marry because that was what all the cake toppers in the craft store showed. She has been corrected.
To be fair the interracial thing is a widespread issue
I was late to the bank to get my rent money for my roomate at the time, and I called him freaking out saying I made it to the bank too late and I wasn't able to get the money. He asked me why I couldn't use the ATM. I said the what? I legitimately forgot that ATMs actually existed because I was so used to going into the bank to get my money.
The smartest girl at my high school asked our French teacher "What do dogs and cats sound like?"
The teacher said the French words people use for the sounds dogs and cats make.
The girl then said "No, do dogs and cats sound different in France?"
She was a straight "A" student. 😂
Early on in my military service, had a young officer who would print out full color Post Exchange adds on an office printer, under the guise of knowing what he wanted to buy before walking in the place. This was before smartphones and instant internet access was as common as today. Despite extensive explaining, dude could not grasp the concept of why the massively expensive printer ink cartridges running out every other week was not a cost benefit to his frugal lifestyle. Took his boss flat out ordering him to stop before he did. Still don’t think he fully understood.
Fellow left/right problem child here. Interesting how it's never up/fown or front/back, just side to side that never comes out right.
Book smart was never better than actual experience. I've worked with engineering students that could point out 20 'design errors' in a circuit with a dozen parts, (It was a one tube Phonograph amplifier) yet he couldn't repair it.
I frequently found design flaws in our new products at my last job, after 25 years of field work. One engineer asked, "Why don't you have a degree?" I sighed, "The GI bill wouldn't pay for the course, but I had tested out of a US Army three year engineering school." I was the only one to ever achieve this. I had worked in Electronics from when I was 13, and I was 20 so I had seven years practical experience.
Comments a few hours after a video is posted: I like the reference to so-and-so game at *insert time*. Really makes my day.
Comments during the first hour after a video is posted: Beep boop blarp i am definitely a human ingesting thin slices of a pale brown root vegetable and definitely not a robot running off of humans interacting with an image of a hand pointing its thumb upwards.
I (a CS prof at the time) was talking with a non-STEM prof about problems he was having with his computer. Part of the problem was that his keyboard was dirty. I suggested that he clean it. He said he looked for the key that would allow him to clean his keyboard. I paused, thinking he was kidding. Then I said, "There is. It's the power button. Turn the computer off and clean the keyboard with alcohol." He looked perplexed for a second then turned bright red.
My sister works in AI, stuff that goes right over my head honestly. The other day, we're having a late night snack and she makes french toast for herself. well, except for the fact that she almost made an omelet instead by putting the egg mix in the pan first. I swear, she will never live that one down
The bread/bread tie thing sounds EXACTLY like the kind of thing a computer programmer would do. My first programming class started with a joke that was the exact same premise. Love that it happens IRL too XD
When a teacher who majored in English didn't know limelight was a real word. I had to point it out in a 30 year old dictionary.
Once I listened on the radio and they was out on a construction site where the county built a school or something and they was interviewing some chick from the county. She was someone in charge or something... She did NOT know anything about welding, electrical or anything related. She suddenly said "Now they must be working on the electrical. It sparks sometimes!" I lifted my eyes from the phone and looked at the radio "What did she say?!" I work in farming and I am grown up with good parenting and good schools. Those who have read this far understands that is was welding they was doing!
The "cook your foot" phrase reminds me of what my family says in, I think, same context. For background: We were watching some space documentary/show and a red planet pops up. My sis said "Is that Mars?" and not 1 second later the narrator says "Mars, the Red Planet." Now anytime, both together and apart, if we ask something and it immediately gets answered, we say to the person who asked, or ourselves if alone, we say "Mars the Red Planet name."
I’m with the grandfather chemical engineer in shocked that the ice cream melted faster in the microwave than the chocolate chips
I put hard ice cream and popsicles in the microwave frequently to soften them before eating. For a moment melting chocolate chips along with the ice cream softening sounded genius to me
I've been told by others that I'm smart. I was helping a buddy install an exhaust piece, forgot that exhaust pieces get hot and learnt that lesson a bit too quickly
This is what we call talking with a PhD in my family. Both of my parents never made it past high school in school. So I was raised by people who had to figure it out by scraping by. My stepfather. On the other hand, as a PhD and sometimes things that come out of his mouth are just so dumb. We love him though
I'll share my tale of brilliance. My ex husband and I were at his mom's house having dinner. She made baked spaghetti, and I marveled at the perfect squares of mozzarella cheese melted on the top. I couldn't figure out how she got them so perfectly square. My ex didn't know either. Yes, she used slices of cheese instead of grated. When I was growing up, the only sliced cheese we ever had was Kraft singles. Mozzarella and cheddar were always grated in bags. I didn't know other kinds of sliced cheese existed, even in my 20s. It's kind of funny that I ended up working in a deli a couple years later.
The Bread Tie Story killed me🤣🤣🤣
I'd consider it to be accidental malicious compliance
Oh, this vid made me laugh out loud many times. Thank you, I needed that.
6:39 I am the opposite. Currently I'm learning to drive with my dad, and everytime he tells me to go left or right, I start going the opposite way.
I didn't see this directly but mom saw a story about a fire in a nearby neighbourhood and call her friend who lives there. Turn out the friend has a neighbour whom we will call Dr. Bob. Dr. Bob also had a unfortunate habit of burning yard debris with a blowtorch. He had been warned about his habit repeatedly, especially by his next door nieghbour who had a garage full of expensive cars that was also under a branch from a tree in Dr. Bobs yard.
Inevitably sparks from one of his burns caught his hedge and quickly travelled to the tree but fortunately the efficiency of the local fire dept. prevented the nieghbour's fears from coming true. Dr. Bob got a ticking off from the fire martial because there was a reason there was a fire ban on at that time.
My wife has four tertiary-level degrees, but if she has money in her bank account she WILL spend it. She wonders why I insisted on having separate bank accounts, it's not because I don't trust her, it is that she is basically financially illiterate.
I have a college degree in biology; science has always been my best subject. One day I was pondering convection currents while drinking coffee, and wondered allowed if it might bep ossible to devise a means to sip form the cooler coffee at the bottom of the cup rather than the top.
"that's usualyl called a straw," replied the person next to me. I felt like I had truly failed myself in that moment.
Can confirm that sometimes, the brain just shuts half-way off for no reason. Once I was busy cooking and needed to do something with a knife, but I didn't put the knife away afterward and nearly stabbed myself. Then I finally very, very slowly put the knife aside. On the plus side I could use this as inspiration for a scene in one of my writings where the protagonist has to disguise herself as a slave, only to nearly accidentally put a *very real* slave collar on instead of a fake one.
Here's one here's one, my aunt thought because she had a handicap placard she didn't have to pay the meter.
My sister (10) is very smart, but not when it comes to friendships
Manipulation, possessiveness, toxicity
You name it
😭😭
My dad was afraid to use the microwave because apparently it emits radiation. Took my bro who studies as network technician and has to know basic electronics and I as I have graduated from biology (high school graduation but in Europe, we study quite a lot, and Americans think we're wizards when answering a question too correctly and accurately) to explain that if it was radioactive(that's actually what he said), no one would buy it. He now uses it more. And Cola would apperently destroy your guts, and again explained thet the gastric produces a mucus lining to prevent digesting itself. So he will be fine after drinking just one glass of it.
I've heard of grown-ass adults having to have sand in one pocket so they could remember the difference
I took IQ tests for fun. I was at the very least in the 97th percentile for every standardized test they had us do in school. The 99th on the ASVAB with one single question missed.
Credit score of 817.
I traveled around Europe teaching ESL from the age of 19.
On more occasions than I will ever admit. I taught small children the "head and shouders knees and toes" song with the lyrics on hand drawn flash cards.
You know the lyrics, right?
"Head and shouders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head and shouders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Eyes... And ears... And mouth... And noes.
Head and shouders... knees and toes, knees and toes.
Every God blessed time. I was paid $40 x hr on average... To put noes in that song for a decade.
I never remembered I'd done it before until a sweet big eyed baby slowly raised their hand to ask if I meant "nose".
I still cringe. That word is my nemesis.
Not my story but a friend of mine was working as a security guard at a lab. This beautiful blonde woman in a lab coat came up to him one night saying that she can't get into her car. He followed her out to her very niche brand new luxury car and she showed him what the problem was by pulling her key fob out and pushing the button. "No matter how much I push the button it won't unlock, I think the battery is dead and I don't know how to change the battery. How am I going to get home if I'm locked out of my car!?" He looked at her, plucked the key fob out of her hand and slid the key out of the side. Evidently the cars that have the push to start functions and seem to not have keys to them, DO have keys. They're sneakily hidden in the FOB. If you have a car like this, I highly encourage you to look for the key. Look up your model of key online if you have to. Knowing where the actual key is could be useful some day.
Story 12 is less about smarts, and more about memory.
This just happened when I finished this video. Not fake, promise.
Found out why we were a case off on two different products: I pulled the 7117 instead of the 7127.
... and I thought I was a smart person to know to check the locations BEFORE pulling that crap. I've been working at this job for a year now ...
my grandfather used to be a engineer for Lockheed. we went to a work party whete they accidentally started a fire because the frozen pizza didnt give instructions to remove the pizza from the box....so they didnt😂😂😂😂😂
I liked story 1
This thread seems entirely out of touch. Everybody does stupid stuff all of the time, and putting intelligence on a pedestal should not obscure that reality.
I'll never understand why anyone would shock themselves with a battery 😮
My Prof, pretty Genius, knows everything about quantum computing, theoretical computer science (think theoretical maths with added complexity), yet he commonly made mistakes on the trivial maths part like 1ns/3 = 3ns
I’m playing an artificer sniper in a campaign
And I’m starting to worry that I’m taking away from other members of the part sometimes
It’s not the MOST optimized build
But I have repeating shot infusion on a sniper rifle (it’s a modern setting) and sharpshooter all in a battle smith with 20 int
Last session I used all my 2nd level spell slots to set my party up as much as I could, but in the end, I look back wondering if I took the spotlight too often and need to scale it back
Might be some sort of survivorship bias type of thing though
Peanut butter soup actually sounds pretty good.
I knew a guy who was both incredibly intelligent and competent both physically and mentally in general.
He denied the actions of a certain Austrian painter against 2 entire races of people. I then used the same evidence to prove once again, it was somehow far worse than I thought.
I don't mean I added in my own evidence, I mean I used his evidence only, and ended up with a darker conclusion than years of the History Channel gave me.
A lot of these are just mental fatigue.
"Blazing ball of light that we can't look at..." Shhh! Nobody tell Donald Trump.
People have told him, but he doesn't believe it.
Hey for left versus right use Larry and Roger like my brother in law
ah book smarts. i worked for the bank for 2 years (the evil one.(no the really evil one)). and so many times i had a "smart" doctor/lawyer/professor/smart guy who got mad because they fell for some obvious scam or were confused about why their debit card stops working when they run out of money. or the doctor who was going on vacation to italy and i told them about a cool historic place in the alps to visit "are you stupid? the alps are in france" sir the alps are in like 10 countries. hell switzerland is 90% alps. italy has the ALPINI infantry. it still bothers me. can you tell?
book smart has never equaled actually skills as book smarts is Intellegence while skill smart is Wisdom (its basic dnd stuff)
The truly smart people are able to juggle between both and have common sense, which is not that common nowadays. Believe me, I am autistic and while I'm called bad things these same people who call me such things are hypocrites! Like for example: im apparently an "identity thief" because I asked for people's work schedules with sensitive info blocked out so I could see if there was an alibi to an incident that they could have stopped (discord argument that went out of control and admin wanted me to suffer based on their inactions and retaliated when I asked... they see this, they know who they are...), MEANWHILE they ask for identification for "age verification" yet never disclaim to cover the sensitive stuff... double standards much? Guess I'm smarter than a popular creator's entire admin team given I at least know some legal shit and can get a lawyer set up if they perpetuate the "identity thief" moniker. Also they called me a liar and manipulative... need proof im not, look to my previous situation and add the fact they didn't have an alibi to their name! I swear popular creators think they can be above the law and need that delusion of grandeur diminished
College is the place you go to Min Max your Intelligence
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