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I’ve got $1,000 on AOC’s test scores over trump’s; especially since he doesn’t know how to capitalize words properly and since she didn’t have a rich father that made huge donations to her college to get her in.
This guy has been calling out everyone else's grades and test scores since at least Obama, while consistently threatening institutions with lawsuits if they release his records. Such stereotypically weak-ass bully behavior.
From the guy that a Wharton professor said was the dumbest motherfucker he ever taught.
I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It's almost a direct quote.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!
That's how fucking dumb he was.
He still had to kneel to the money, like everyone else.
As much as I loathe The Good Doctor...
Trump fits that meme perfectly. 'I am da president' through the lips of a crying man child.
Its clearly a dementia test. AOC behaves like a non-cognitively impaired adult. Trump acts like a 70 year old who was in the NFL.
How many of her teachers said she was the dumbest student they'd ever had?
I don't think there's a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.
He truly believes he's a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he's by far the dumbest person to hold the office.
Smart people know their shortcomings.
And rich people think they are smart, because of money, instead of luck of the draw with parents giving them money.
Many are smart because they can afford better education.
Being better educated doesn't make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.
If you take two equally capable people and give one a better education the better educated one will be generally smarter.
They'll be more knowledgeable and better educated. They won't be smarter.
What do you think smarter means if not more knowledgable and better educated?
Smarts/intelligence is the capacity to learn. An educated person has been taught. A knowledgeable person has learned.
So you think you are born with a specific capacity for intelligence that cannot be changed to make people have a greater capacity to learn? (Obviously blunt force trauma can make someone less capable).
There's definitely variance in human intelligence, yes.
That’s not what I am asking.
Do you think you are born with a specific capacity for intelligence that cannot he altered in a positive fashion?
Yes. People have different natural abilities.
I played the bassoon for over a decade. I had access to truly excellent instructors and a great music program and worked hard at it. And after years of training and work, I was decent. I saw other people with no prior music background pick it up and get better than me in 2-3 months.
People's brains are wired differently.
So do you think intelligence is like a stat in an RPG?
I'm saying that people are varied and that individuals have a maximum potential. Not everybody can lift weights to the point they become the strongest person on the planet, and not everyone can study until they're the most-knowledgeable person on the planet.
We're not clones. Everyone is born different with different brains and bodies, and it's important to recognize that so we can cater to people's individual needs, learning styles, abilities, and passions.
My brother and I noted the propensity for some people born into wealth to be attractive as well. Braces when you're 10 and a dermatologist when you're 13 can have massive, lasting impacts decades later. Just a bit more invisible privilege those born to money get.
Historically, rich people have been able to alter what people consider attractive too. There were multiple cultures across the globe that painted their teeth black because being able to eat a lot of imported sugar made your teeth rot.
Straight up health problems being romanticized just because it was a problem only affecting the rich.
Lots of Trump cultists would. Remember that most of them need to be as stupid or even more stupid than Trump to worship him so.
He can't even spell his name any longer. He's got full blown dementia.