However, I don't believe that assessing scholarly talent is only possible through higher education. Perhaps I've fallen victim to a Good Will Hunting hollywood fable. But I believe that success through self-teaching is possible. Look at Monty Oum. While flaws have been pointed out in his work, he still produces impressive stuff even though he's a dropout himself.
There are a small number of people who do great deeds in the world of academia despite having had little to no formal education beyond high school. We have yet to see evidence that Jeff is one of those people.
What you said reminds me of the Galileo fallacy. Yes, some people are smarter than all the academics who say that they are wrong. But for every Galileo, there are a million cranks who compare themselves to Galileo. And for every Will Hunting, there are million people (OK, maybe not a million, but still a lot) who couldn't hack it but like to compare themselves to him.
For this I commend you, yes community college. Once again Im poor, and if extremely dedicated could fund myself to go to Auburn University. I may need that.
Don't you have scholarships for poor people over there? From the claims you've made about your intellect, you should be able to get a scholarship from Harvard.
My argument cameo out wrong cause I was slightly manic at the time, and I really meant to say that "We aren't inbred, look at these well laid out facts I have for you". But instead it came out" How DARE you, Im smarter than EVERYONE, and thats just 1 person in AL"
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Once again sorry for coming off the wrong way( I usually will in my manic moods, I act a bit like charlie sheen did when he was crazy)
The problem is that this isn't an isolated incident.
I know I cant help but find some people with a higher level of education than me stupid. Like doctors.8 years of school, most of em are as dumb as dumb gets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effectThe Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others".
If someone is far better educated or more intelligent than you, you may lack the ability to appreciate their wisdom; the lack of competence that separates them from you, ironically, also prevents you from realising that your assumption of superiority is wrong.
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