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Tell us what interests you. See your recommendations. The dummies getting the bat-and-ball question wrong weren't so dumb, either.
When Frederick gave the question to students from Harvard, Princeton, and M. Even students from some of the most prestigious universities in the world make stupid mistakes. Perhaps the scariest thing about the errors that highly intelligent people make is how unaware they are of them. People of all levels of intelligence succumb to what's called the "bias blind spot.
The sillier the mistake, the harder it is for an intelligent person to accept that they've made it. While it might seem like we don't spend our days solving logic problems like the bat-and-ball question, the brain functions involved in solving these problems are the same ones we use in everyday thinking.
Hence, the tendency to do stupid things follows smart people into the workplace. Consider some of the most common ways in which smart people manage to shoot themselves in the foot. A lifetime of praise and pats on the back leads smart people to develop an unflappable faith in their intelligence and abilities.
When you rack up accomplishments while people stroke your ego, it's easy to expect that things will always go your way. But this is a dangerous expectation. Smart people often fail to recognize when they need help, and when they do recognize it, they tend to believe that no one else is capable of providing it.
Smart people develop overachieving personalities because things come so easily to them. They simply don't understand how hard some people have to work to accomplish the same things, and because of that, they push people too hard.
Smart people set the bar too high, and when people take too long or don't get things quite right, they assume it's due to a lack of effort. If you ask a class of students whether they are above the class average in intelligence, the vast majority of hands shoot up. Even when you ask people who are objectively among the worst in a certain skill, they tend to say they are above average. Not everyone can be above average — but we can all have the illusion that we are.
We desperately cling to this illusion even when there is devastating evidence to the contrary. We collect all the information we can find to proveourselves right and ignore any information that proves us wrong. We feel good, but we overlook crucial facts.
As a result the smartest people ignore the intelligence of others so they make themselves feel smarter. Being smart can come at a cost.
Asking tricky questions, doing the research and carefully thinking things through takes time. Most of us would rather do anything than think. A recent study found that when left alone in a room, people preferred to give themselves electric shocks than quietly sit and think.
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