There is a meme claiming
Low & High Intelligent people tend to believe the same things
But Average intelligent people tend to believe something that contradicts them
Sometimes it seems like my first opinion on an issue started at lpw intelligence then changed to a contradicting middle intelligence opinion then after further thought and research becomes that of high intelligence which was my initial belief at my low intelligence stage
Sometimes I go straight from low to high skipping middle
@shortstories
It's easy to explain. Low intelligence people must face against reality directly and must learn to deal with it or straight up die.
Middle intelligence people are one or two steps away fron direct reality but can't really process abstractions...they are like automatons who can follow instructions.
High intelligence is where you are able to differentiate reality from abstractions, understand their relationship and create mew things/concepts that are effective irl.
People who want to consider themselves smarter than they really are listen to a lot of big wordy pseudointellectual mumbo-jumbo from other people want to consider themselves smarter than they are, and they don't understand it, but they pretend that if they just nod along, they'll convince people that they're smart.
So they all end up kind of converging on these general consensuses (consensii?) like "trust the science" etc...
Mathematicians tend to have high IQ and tend to really have to be smart in a way that involves something more than wordy mumble jumble and also I do not remember a math major ever telling me they were smart because they got a high IQ score and they do not need to because being able to do the math is proof that you are smart in and of itself
@shortstories @cjd
Math is a good example. If it's easy to simplify, follow instructions and even model things according to already existing formulas and functions, I consider it low math: science computing, statistics, engineering, finance, etc.
Then you have high math, where you're not only using it but creating new theorems, new models, simulating new realitiesL Physicists, theoretical mathematicians, applied math and researchers, maybe astrophysicians and cryptologists.
This is more nuance but I feel like
engineers use low math
Physicists use mid math
Mathematicians use high math
They kind of make up their own math models in physics but they also check the models against reality so it is between the two
I think in astronomy, astrophysics and theoritical physics it is common to make stuff up with no empirical proof and the math is not checked thoroughly to see if it is correct either the way it would be in mathematics or other fields of physics
@shortstories @cjd
I understand your point, although I differ a bit with the conclusion.
Low math = algorithms, already defined.
Mid math = new models, checked against reality, experimentation.
High math = new abstract models, not empirical proof.
In high math you can't really prove but you can derive a lot of hypotheses based on the implication of the new model, map consequences according to causality and study how it would interact with reality, logically. It's very abstract but useful.
Mid intelligence can be competent low mathematicians and they are the backbone of maintaining a first world country civilization running and progressing.
High intelligence will tend to be on the former camp because they can process the level of abstraction necessary and they can apply it to the real world, where they will actually put the instruction in low math format for the mid IQ people. They're vital but they're a very small group.
The issue today is we're running out of both.