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I assume most people here are gainfully employed. Many are in a trade or skilled profession that no one could just walk on and start doing without significant training.

And yet...

A lot of you are clearly just low IQ. I know because I talk with you in the comments here on Poal and I read the things you say and poke at the reasoning you use to justify those opinions. The takes are bad and the thought process behind them is even worse in many cases.

But many of the low IQ people here seem to carry themselves as if their opinion is important and carries weight. Do you think it's possible that being useful in the production of some kind of goods and services, being skilled, gives these people an inflated sense of their own mental abilities?

Keep in mind it doesn't necessarily take great intelligence to be a skilled laborer. There is a lot of training, systems, repetition, that helps skilled workers achieve good results. And most people working in skilled fields still need to be managed. Even in cases where the pay is high, the marketability of the skill doesn't necessarily need to correlate with high intellect.

I'm not trying to insult anyone specifically or downplay the need for skilled labor (which we are desperate for and is waning rapidly in western countries).

I'm just wondering if doing skilled work creates an inflated sense of intelligence and if this might not be a big factor in the interaction between industrial society and social media.

What are you thoughts?

tl;dr A lot of you are dumbasses. Do you think having a job makes you feel smarter than you are?
I assume most people here are gainfully employed. Many are in a trade or skilled profession that no one could just walk on and start doing without significant training. And yet... **A lot of you are clearly just low IQ.** I know because I talk with you in the comments here on Poal and I read the things you say and poke at the reasoning you use to justify those opinions. The takes are bad and the thought process behind them is even worse in many cases. But many of the low IQ people here seem to carry themselves as if their opinion is important and carries weight. Do you think it's possible that being useful in the production of some kind of goods and services, being *skilled*, gives these people an inflated sense of their own mental abilities? Keep in mind it doesn't necessarily take great intelligence to be a skilled laborer. There is a lot of training, systems, repetition, that helps skilled workers achieve good results. And most people working in skilled fields still need to be managed. Even in cases where the pay is high, the marketability of the skill doesn't necessarily need to correlate with high intellect. I'm not trying to insult anyone specifically or downplay the need for skilled labor (which we are desperate for and is waning rapidly in western countries). I'm just wondering if doing skilled work creates an inflated sense of intelligence and if this might not be a big factor in the interaction between industrial society and social media. What are you thoughts? #####tl;dr A lot of you are dumbasses. Do you think having a job makes you feel smarter than you are?

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

it doesn't necessarily take great intelligence to be a skilled laborer

Agreed. I've met doctors who are dumb as rocks. Many times we make the mistake that someone who is "intelligent" or "skilled" at something complex, is invariably also skilled at everything else.

A lot of you are dumbasses. Do you think having a job makes you feel smarter than you are?

This is a stupid question. You're claiming that many poal fags are low IQ (agreed, that is most of us in general), then asking those low IQ individuals to admit that they are low IQ's who inflate their own self-worth via their skilled job.

The quickest way to ignorance is believing yourself smart. Which, by this post, you're claiming you are.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Doctors and the professional class are also a good example of this ego inflation phenomenon than tradespeople. The reason I went with the latter is that a lot more people on here can probably relate. Also, because the IQs of tradespeople are on average comparatively lower than that of the professional class, ego inflation from "work that actually makes something" might be greater in proportion.

Come to think of it, I remember seeing some by profession that found doctors and other professional class people are not as smart as they probably think they are. Average for doctor was like 120. But even though the average is higher than that of, say, metalworkers, they are still insanely vulnerable to overestimating themselves. And again, these people are all propped up by systems, technology, field-specific training, support staff, management, etc. Yet they thought every person who question the clot shot was an idiot because their immense minds couldn't possibly be wrong about blindly following their pharma instructions. Oops!

As for me, I drive a forklift for work and believe myself to be somewhere near the high end of the midwit (my phone refuses to write this word) range of IQ. I've never taken a professionally administered IQ test so it's possible I'm dumber or smarter than that.

But that's neither here nor there. If your IQ is 100 (dead average), you're smarter than 50% of people. So it's not necessarily especially conceited to observe dumb people.

Especially after the Voat migration event (aka faggening).

[–] • 4 pts

You talk like a fag like that at work?

[–] • 2 pts

No I talk like a forklift driver at work. I come on here to talk like a fag because I'm in good company.