Funny coincidence

Argued with an old friend, long and not too happily living in the United States. Almost did not come to the assault, but the gods were merciful ...

A friend said a la Zadornov: “Americans are stupid! Well, they are stupid! ”And cited the example of Ms. Psaki.

I replied: “You shouldn’t judge an entire nation by idiot. Noam Chomsky is a US citizen, like Jen Psaki. ”

He told about the "intellectual" accomplishments of Bush Junior, Romney, McCain, Albright, two ladies by the name of Rice, Clinton's wife, and, again, the unforgettable Psaki.

I answered: “It is not worth one ten (one hundred, one thousand ...) idiots to judge the whole nation. Yes, and Rice is not all fools. Ann, for example, is a wonderful writer. ”

I gave examples of great (really great!) Americans: George Washington, Washington Irving, Irving Show ...

“It's all wrong! ..” he replied.

I listed politicians and military leaders, artists and writers, scientists, discoverers and inventors, engineers and designers ...

I argued that America (more specifically) has something to be proud of.

But he dismissed all my arguments in one: “It was ... it was, but it passed ...”. And Esenin quoted - "... like smoke from white apple trees ...".

And then I again mentioned Noam Chomsky ...

The interviewee paused, thought and issued: "The majority of US citizens, from among those who heard this name, consider him an idiot ..."

This joker I had nothing to cover. That's the whole ... that's the whole conversation ...

And I recalled a long-standing, in fact, composed cry of the soul: “With a difference of IQ in 50 and more units, the interlocutors sincerely consider each other as perfect idiots.

Scientific fact.

The other day my wife passed the test and proudly filed a report: 131! So this is why we so rarely understand each other, it was sad to me ... "

After talking with a friend, using the Internet, I came across an article in the Czech newspaper Pravda Chomsky - the truth of stupidity.

The next day, her translation appeared on the InoSMI website, where the user under the nickname Prince Danish “attached” the author with the words: “Calling others“ useful idiots ”are usually inclined to useless idiots” in the comments).

A funny coincidence, isn't it?

Comments

[X Y Z]

IQ - the test is very doubtful and approximate. He does not give a full assessment of human intelligence. Report on the size of your IQ - cheap show-offs.

[Army1]

Quote: XYZ

IQ - the test is very doubtful and approximate. He does not give a full assessment of human intelligence. Report on the size of your IQ - cheap show-offs.

IQ is a measure of thinking but not intelligence. I can understand astronomy, literature, be an erudite, but do not understand what number to add between 5 6 7 9 ... 4. And that I am now stupid. I don’t think so. And it’s not clear, a friend of the author lives in the country of "stupid" in the United States and calls everyone stupid? Internet fighters and all sorts of couch heroes who know everything and insult should be easier.

[Army1]

This journalist is like a splinter in one place at Psaki

[Army1]

And so for the mood

[Icr]

Intelligence is directly related to thinking, while knowledge is only indirectly related to intelligence. Erudition is information, intelligence is the ability to process information.
PS The author’s note about his wife looks like a child’s boast (coincidence?), And, in the subtext, is also the humiliation of a loved one ... All this, to put it mildly, does not cause respect.

[Ujin61]

What does IQ have to do with it? The article is about nothing at all.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: XYZ

Report on the size of your IQ - cheap show-offs.

“With an IQ difference of 50 or more units, the interlocutors sincerely regard each other as perfect idiots. The other day, my wife passed the test and proudly presented a report: 131! So that’s why we rarely understand each other, I thought sadly ... "

Really you, my friend, IQ
only 80 (!) units !?
Well this is necessary !?

[Kasym]

The education system and its curriculum are the reason for psaking. There are, of course, very "cool" universities and schools (usually private and very expensive), but on average ... there is no such subject as geography, the school curriculum is very weak, rather designed for self-knowledge and self-education.

[AlNikolaich]

Read. What is this?
It seems about America? Not?
Maybe the author is trying to express the idea that
Americans are not all stupid. And stupid mostly on
government posts?
In short, it is not clear ...
Article minus ...

[Dragon-y]

And the author, I wonder what IQ is 180 or 80? ..

[Angro Magno]

Since wives are always smarter, he has 80.

[parusnik]

Chomsky calls himself a libertarian socialist and supporter of anarcho-syndicalism ... This is not glamor .. now ..

[Rurikovich]

If d.urak understood that he was d.urak, then he is no longer durak ...

[Old warrant officer]

I read and, frankly, didn’t understand anything. What article is it that would not be judged by Psaki about amers? Put someone highly intellectual in this place and the question closes. In the meantime, she’s a talking head - that means they will be judged by it. I imagine that it would be if we had some glamor girl, like a wife of some football player or someone from the Madhouse-2, who voiced the point of view of Moscow!

[A1L9E4K9S]

Friends, what kind of dregs they began to palm off to read about what the article is about, explain to me, maybe I’m a fool, I don’t understand the essence of the article.

[Serg7281]

I didn’t understand anything either. What did the author want to say?

[Iline]

A doctor from Russia certainly knows how great the American people are, and his friend in America does not see this. Here is the main postulate of these nonsense. Each nation has its own great people (in the understanding of this nation, the rest of the world can strongly doubt it), and there is the rest of the mass. The degree of literacy and education of this rest of the mass speaks of the development of the people, and with this in America it is not very.

[sssla]

I answered: “Do not cost one ten (one hundred, one thousand ...)
I completely agree that for some million you do not need to judge their stupidity
A friend was broadcasting a la Zadornov:
And he))) said that individually so a person is a person, and you can talk BUT how the crowd gather so this is universal trouble
The Prince of Denmark “made” the author quite well with the words: “Calling others“ useful idiots ”is usually useless”).
Calling others "..... but this is our son of a bitch" can only be S. Sons
Article

[Old Cynic]

A friend was broadcasting a la Zadornov:
And he))) said that individually so a person is a person, and you can talk BUT how the crowd gather so this is universal trouble

Insolently stolen from Gustave le Bon !!! From his monograph "The Psychology of Peoples and the Masses", or "The Psychology of the Crowd", it is also said there.

[demotivator]

Quote: XYZ

IQ - the test is very doubtful and approximate. He does not give a full assessment of human intelligence. Report on the size of your IQ - cheap show-offs.

My personal experience makes me relate to such tests without reverence, as, indeed, to any other formal exam. After all, for that matter, then what, if not a kind of intelligence test, are all those exams that we have to pass at school, institute or military academy? How much use are there to them?
It turns out that testing on many exams means nothing to life. Winston Churchill, the author of the idea of ​​such an invention as a tank, a man who did not have a naval rank, but the first to understand the need to transfer the fleet from coal to oil, and indeed a man of a very remarkable mind, had difficulty passing exams in high school, and entrance exams even to the infantry (least demanding) school. Henry Ford, the father of the global automotive industry, spent neither 5 years of his life nor money to study at the university. And, by the way, he wrote: “I never take on the service of a purebred specialist. If I wanted to kill my competitors by dishonest means, I would provide them with hordes of specialists. Having received a lot of good advice, my competitors could not get to work. ” Soros attended the London School of Economics for only two years, and the future Nobel laureate John Mead gave lectures on economics at this School, however, Soros later said that "he did not learn much from this course." Bill Gates was also expelled from Harvard University two years later, and somehow he did not regret that he did not pass all the tests of this university to be considered an intelligent person. The highest IQ among American presidents was determined by Bill Clinton, but would anyone even remember him now if not for Monica Lewinsky?
However, you can’t ignore IQ either: just like any exam, this exam also provides information about the person. For example, George W. Bush junior IQ is not only among the presidents, but with such an IQ (91) they do not even accept New York bus drivers. But this was evident even without tests, that he was impossibly stupid, like Psaki.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

I'm probably dumb. but explain what the article is about?

[Semurg]

Quote: Vasilenko Vladimir

I'm probably dumb. but explain what the article is about?

So I understood the article that a stupid nation (according to Zadornov) could not build a country as we know it today, but some people who continue to believe that Americans are stupid do not agree with this. In general, everyone remains unconvinced .

[demotivator]

Quote: Vasilenko Vladimir

I'm probably dumb. but explain what the article is about?

Well, like, a discussion of the debate about stupid Americans or not. In general, the author is fixated on this IQ. So-so article. About nothing and everything.

[stas52]

I’ll tell you a secret, there is no such nation: Americans, there are US citizens.

[lankrus]

Unfortunately, everything that Zadornov sang about the states has long been realized in Russia. The younger generation does not know history, geography, literature. He writes with the wildest mistakes. The fruits of modern education, the crown of which is the exam, guess the answer of the three proposed. Zadornov does not go to America to collect nonsense, he finds all this in the vastness of our Motherland. This is how liberals killed education.

[Old Cynic]

Wei-wei!
What about the logs in your own eye? The first sentence is written with errors. Count yourself how many of them are in it, and then the youth have the right to blame for illiteracy!
You personally - minus for illiteracy !!!
By the way, try to find errors in your fourth sentence ...

[dohtur]

If the Americans are satisfied with such a responsible post, the absolute majority of them are exactly the same and they don’t see anything bad in the psak.
Total: the majority of US residents are DUTER and narrow-minded people, the same as the psaka.

ps: moderators, why does your censor dislike S.Sh.P. (without dots)?
Why is he correcting in the usa?

[Gorbtk]

The IQ test is not unique for Russia, it does not mean anything. We have always had puzzles. But this is not just brain functions, but also imagination and soul. They just have logic. And the article is disgusting ...

[Semurg]

Quote: Gorbtk

The IQ test is not unique for Russia, it does not mean anything. We have always had puzzles. But this is not just brain functions, but also imagination and soul. They just have logic. And the article is disgusting ...

I think of those who tried to test themselves, there are two opinions: 1) those who received a good and high score, yes the test is a good thing 2) those who received a low score, these tests are about nothing and do not give and do not determine anything.

[mamont5]

"A friend was broadcasting a la Zadornov:" Americans are stupid! Well, they are stupid! " and gave the example of Mrs. Psaki. "

It is not entirely clear what the author wanted to prove with his article. That the Americans are not "stupid", and that some of them come across oh-oh-oh-very smart?
I think that this is already understandable that the term "stupid" should not be taken literally. And, my respected M.N. Zadornov, I think he meant the same thing. It's just that Americans, most of them very narrow specialists and knowing their job perfectly, do not consider it necessary to study other sciences, and even more general ones, completely relying on the government and civil services in this matter. This often brings them down, putting them in a ridiculous position in comparison with our people. And yet, in connection with the above, most Americans do not know how to think and make decisions, which is also the prerogative of their superiors.

[Yasondinalt]

And what are the Americans? And what are their great commanders and artists? America grabs everything for itself and gives out as its merits. Why would there be so many talented people in 200 years? Arrivals.

[Icr]

Quote: Gorbtk

The IQ test is not unique for Russia, it does not mean anything. We have always had puzzles. But this is not just brain functions, but also imagination and soul. They just have logic. And the article is disgusting ...

Imagination is definitely a function of the brain, but about the soul it’s probably to the church). Tests tell themselves quite well, and by the way they cannot be compared with an exam, since knowledge is needed in the exam, and you can come to the solution of all problems in IQ tests analytically, without any information other than that presented in the source data. And why, incidentally, would the imagination (well, to hell with him, let the soul too) interfere with logic?

[genning]

Quote: demotivator

Quote: XYZ

IQ - the test is very doubtful and approximate. He does not give a full assessment of human intelligence. Report on the size of your IQ - cheap show-offs.

My personal experience makes me relate to such tests without reverence, as, indeed, to any other formal exam. After all, for that matter, then what, if not a kind of intelligence test, are all those exams that we have to pass at school, institute or military academy? How much use are there to them?
It turns out that testing on many exams means nothing to life. Winston Churchill, the author of the idea of ​​such an invention as a tank, a man who did not have a naval rank, but the first to understand the need to transfer the fleet from coal to oil, and indeed a man of a very remarkable mind, had difficulty passing exams in high school, and entrance exams even to the infantry (least demanding) school. Henry Ford, the father of the global automotive industry, spent neither 5 years of his life nor money to study at the university. And, by the way, he wrote: “I never take on the service of a purebred specialist. If I wanted to kill my competitors by dishonest means, I would provide them with hordes of specialists. Having received a lot of good advice, my competitors could not get to work. ” Soros attended the London School of Economics for only two years, and the future Nobel laureate John Mead gave lectures on economics at this School, however, Soros later said that "he did not learn much from this course." Bill Gates was also expelled from Harvard University two years later, and somehow he did not regret that he did not pass all the tests of this university to be considered an intelligent person. The highest IQ among American presidents was determined by Bill Clinton, but would anyone even remember him now if not for Monica Lewinsky?
However, you can’t ignore IQ either: just like any exam, this exam also provides information about the person. For example, George W. Bush junior IQ is not only among the presidents, but with such an IQ (91) they do not even accept New York bus drivers. But this was evident even without tests, that he was impossibly stupid, like Psaki.

It seems to me that Psaki is not at all stupid, she is a very good psychologist and knows when to take the whole blow, and then we think "what to take from this fool", but in vain we think so ...