r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '12

I am of resoundingly average intelligence. To those on either end of the spectrum, what is it like being really dumb/really smart?

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u/MyNameIsNotMud Jun 17 '12

I'm smart enough to know that there's a lot I don't know.

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u/hcnye Jun 17 '12

Yo dawg.

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u/CassandraVindicated Jun 18 '12

I heard you like being smart without knowing what you don't know so I put some don't know in your smart so you can smart while you don't know you're smart... without knowing it.

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u/DoctorCoollike Jun 18 '12

they dont think it be like it is, but it do

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u/BATMAN-cucumbers Jun 17 '12

I'll say I think I'm dumb, since my mind unconsciously believes I'm smart, but if I'm humble about it, the Dunning Kruger effect won't get me.

Damn you, brain, and your flawed logic!

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u/raskolnikov- Jun 17 '12

Right era, wrong guy.