Intellectual Yet Idiot

[wufwugy]

I agree I think, but it's possible he's talking about them in a different way. Though I won't defend him. He says some stuff I don't like.

[Poopadoop]

I do agree with the idea that intellectuals try to show how smart they are by making things more complicated than they need to be at times.

In my department for example, we'll have a dip in student satisfaction one year, and without any evidence it's not just a random fluctuation, a lot of people will act like it's explainable by x, y, z, and any other number of things we're doing in the dept.. Then they'll make a shitload of work for everyone to 'solve' the 'problem'.

The funniest part is that five years later there'll be another dip and they'll decide it was because x, y and z are different now and change them back. Seriously, wtf guys...

[Savy]

I do agree with the idea that intellectuals try to show how smart they are by making things more complicated than they need to be at times.

In my department for example, we'll have a dip in student satisfaction one year, and without any evidence it's not just a random fluctuation, a lot of people will act like it's explainable by x, y, z, and any other number of things we're doing in the dept.. Then they'll make a shitload of work for everyone to 'solve' the 'problem'.

The funniest part is that five years later there'll be another dip and they'll decide it was because x, y and z are different now and change them back. Seriously, wtf guys...

It was a good realisation I made a while ago that almost everyone creates reasons for what happens after they happen which almost definitely doesn't take into account the whole scope of what's going on (as it's almost impossible to do). It's very easy to say this happened because x, y and z but if you're not looking at the full scope of outcomes and what exactly happened the conclusions you're drawing are complete bollocks. Then applying them to future scenarios is a nonsense and people are shocked when they don't apply.

This especially happens with unlikely events. If you run a scenario over and over when it has a really wild outcome with a 1% chance and you get that outcome it doesn't mean anything mental happened that caused that result it's just that it's expected to happen every now and then. Yet people will attempt to create reasons for the special outcome.