Canadian Study On Bright Minds ,Dark Attitude

[MaryAnne]

The lower the intelligence,the more prejudiced.

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/187

 

[OldGaffer]

Sad but true.

 

[MaryAnne]

Not getting much comment on this one OG)

 

[Craig]

The lower the intelligence,the more prejudiced.

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/187

Another study indicates a similar finding.



"There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.



Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.



On the contrary. People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well.



``I began to think that there were probably lots of things that I was bad at, and I didn't know it,'' Dunning said.
One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence...."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/01/18/MN73840.DTL#ixzz1mpoVP7We


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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/01/18/MN73840.DTL

 

[MaryAnne]

That is quite true, but many people do not look at themselves objectively) Including myself.

 

[fairsheet]

The especially clever person knows what he doesn't know. The duller person, does not.

 

[Jen]

Probably true enough. Intelligent people realize that most prejudice (all?) is based on something superficial and easily seen - such as skin color, clothing worn, fat/ slim. There is no way that a person's visible qualities make that person either good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable as a person. And anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that without even thinking through the thought.

I think that prejudice is a learned thing and sometimes people are prejudiced because their parents were and to think any other way doesn't occur to them. I think we would be surprised at how so many people slide through life without much deep thought.