How to Think Like a Genius 59-Skepticism
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The main point I want to get to is cautions, cautions, cautions for people looking at this stuff. People should probably have a decent to a heavy of level of skepticism with these things.
Rick Rosner: Yes, everybody should be crazily skeptical, extremely skeptical with the first question being, “Why are spending time trying to find out what your IQ might be when you could be doing so many other things?” It might be reasonable. The answer to question is like doctors. When you go to a cosmetic surgeon, the doctor will say, “What do you want from this? And why do you want it?”
American doctors are focused on choice. Canadian doctors are focused on equity.
If you go to an American cosmetic surgeon and say “Because I’ll become super beautiful and be able to meet a really good looking rich guy and my life will be entirely different or I’ll start really getting with great women, and everything is going to be different.” That’s an immediate red flag because having your nose messed with is not going to revolutionize your life. You doctor will be like, “Wow!” They might not work on you because they don’t want to be sued when your surgery does not entirely change your life.
The right tone to do when you’re exploring cosmetic surgery is “I’d like my nose to be a little different. It might make me feel a little better. It might balance my face a little more. I’d like to look a little more rested.” The doctor is thinking they can meet those expectations. It is the same with IQ. You shouldn’t be going in ready to make some big investment of emotions or time in IQ.
It can’t hold up to that stuff. It is brand X paper towel that will not hold the brick.
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