Does someone who seldom speaks generally make for a smarter individual?

[Member243850]

Interesting conversation!

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/quiet-ones-more-intelligent/1112725/

What are your thoughts?

I think for starters intelligence can be an extremely complex subject.

Hmm I wonder. Is it always true? Or can someone who has nothing to say be seen as "stupid" or do they see life as stupid in general?

let me know what you guys think

 

[Dannydet]

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[lunatic59]

While I would agree that blathering blowhards are likely to be idiots, I don't know that we can assume the converse is true. A quiet person could just be a sociopath who just hasn't had time to buy the right chainsaw.

 

[Deleted User]

My experience is that in any walk of life, being seen as 'quiet' is bad. Very bad. Socially, people view quietness as being 'stand-offish', or interpret it as the other person not liking them. Or assuming that the quiet person is up to something. It seems like blathering out the contents of your mind is the socially acceptable thing to do, and the way to make friends.
At work, being quiet is such a negative trait, I can't stress how much of an impact this can have on your career. To start with, people think you have no ideas, or are stupid. Can you believe I've actually had an appraising manager tell me just to say 'anything' in a meeting. What? Just any old crap? Sorry that's what a lot of people do, but for me, what I say has to make sense. And if you don't whine and moan about things it appears that you can just be allowed to melt into the background, with work being assigned to people who bitch and moan at every turn. I really don't understand it.
So the harsh fact is that our society does not like introverts.

 

[lunatic59]

So the harsh fact is that our society does not like introverts.

You're just associating with the wrong society.

 

[Deleted User]

I think for starters intelligence can be an extremely complex subject.

Absolutely. There are many forms of intelligence.

You're just associating with the wrong society.

Present company excepted of course, but...

 

[lunatic59]

So do you see yourself as more a Roy or a Moss?

 

[Member243850]

Hehehe this is gonna be interesting!

 

[Deleted User]

So do you see yourself as more a Roy or a Moss?

Haha! Well I'm really not as dysfunctional as those two, but I can identify with some of what they do. That programme is so funny though

 

[lunatic59]

My favorite is when Roy and Moss give Jen 'the internet' for her presentation.

I wish they continued the series. Sadly IT doesn't interest enough to make it viable for more than three seasons.

 

[psionandy]

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.-- Mark Twain

 

[Hadron]

Well there is an old saying, that it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it

 

[Deleted User]

Well quite. And it's not what you know, so much as what people think you know, that counts.

 

[psionandy]

Well quite. And it's not what you know, so much as what people think you know, that counts.

Sir Humphrey: it's a deterrent.
Hacker: It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but they don't know that you probably wouldn't.
Hacker: They probably do.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn't. But they can't certainly know.
Hacker: They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn't.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would!