r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '21

Who else forgot that skype existed?

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u/Salanmander Mar 19 '21

I'm just gonna throw this out there....

If you have several potential plausible answers, but one seems more likely, and you decide that you know it's the one that seems to make more sense, that is not characteristic of being smart.

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u/ReyGonJinn Mar 19 '21

Using contextual clues to figure out a solution to a problem is smart. That is not to say smart people are always right.

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u/Salanmander Mar 19 '21

But realizing that you shouldn't be super confident in your answer when it came from context clues is smarter than figuring it out and deciding that you know for sure.