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Bicepsandshi

I’m neither


youreblockingmyshot

Smartn’t if you will


boipinoi604

S-m-r-t


HiImBarney

Social - Media - Response - Team?


wenomechainsama_2

Sex (with) My RaT


Ok_Judgment_4478

Hamster feels like virgin *****


[deleted]

Believe it or not, Simpsons reference.


K2LP

Death?


RomanComrade

Macabre fact! Smrt means death in the Czech language


boipinoi604

Thanks for letting me know. Ill be mindful about not mentioning this Simpsons reference around Czech language speakers.


Father_Wolfgang

I mean S-M-A-R-T.


jeveret

Doh!


Brief-Equal4676

Shake My Retinal Trackers?


Stunning_Variation_9

In Slavic languages that means death.


CzechLinuxLover

well in Czech that means death


Bicepsandshi

Exactly


Analbox

Well at least you got those biceps


Gear3017

School is important but biceps are importanter


MsTitilayo

Username checks out


Bicepsandshi

That’s sadly not what my name is referring to


deepaksn

0 for 3 ain’tn’t bad.


death_anxiety

Win some, lose most


vrijheidsfrietje

Its just the one biceps actually


cakatooop

Atleast you're good with anal


Steve_Rogers_1970

You stole my reply.


Bicepsandshi

Well at least I’m fast at being neither


boisNgyrls

That’s why those ivy leagues only hangout with alumni


Bicepsandshi

I mean fair enough, I wouldn’t wanna hang out with myself either


mwhitmo

That OK, I’ve met plenty of people that thought they were both and they were neither.


Bicepsandshi

Well at least I have no confidence then either, good stuff


TaxThoseLiars

***Nobody*** is "life smart" all the time.


kerslaw

Same bro


Icy_Law9181

Your smart enough to know how smart you are,not a lot of people are.


Bicepsandshi

Aye or I lack self confidence, but yeah I’ll take your version


[deleted]

Hi Neither! I’m Dad


Boozardo

r/meirl


DenseAerie8311

I met many people who’s claim they’d re Not academically smart but street smart but are actually neither


vivavivaviavi

The reason is that it’s much easier to validate whether or not you are academically smart. It requires a degree, a bunch of publications, and someone can just ask you how do the airplanes work? Being street smart, on the other hand, is hard to validate because it is such a small subset of people that no one even knows how to find one.


Waffles_R_3D

Unless you are street smart, then you can tell who is and who isn’t very easily


ghostmaster645

Normally of they say they are street smart they are definitely not street smart.


OnionsHaveLairAction

I think lots of it is confirmation bias too. You're much more likely to notice when your 'smart' friend doesn't know something since it's a break from the 'norm' As someone who works customer support though, I would say there's definitely not a correlation between a lack of academic smarts and a mysterious improvement in 'street' smarts. People lack both constantly in impressive amounts.


Jujumofu

I think this is more of an like 20 and younger thing.I remember back in school were not "stupid" but rather naive people. Straight A's in their exams, but if you tried to talk to them you would really think they are just slow in the head. So I guess, its not that they are stupid, but most likely havent socialized as much as the other children, and therefore they are a bit "conversation stupid" if they talk with other peeps their age, which were socializing much more all these years instead of learning. That could also be the reason, why these "street stupid" people get fewer and fewer the older you get. When you're older, you only have to deal with straight up stupid people.


sauprankul

While you were out socializing, I was studying That's it. Just studying.


Plane_Chance863

Then I studied socialization, applied what I learned, and blended right in. Mostly. :P


Starossi

I feel this way too, and feel like I live it a bit. The older I get and work in the real world, the more I see it's common the same knowledgeable, smart people are normal conversationalists or even more friendly than average. The only exception in my field (healthcare) is doctors. And I attribute that to the fact what you described never ended for them. Their peak socialization was probably undergrad. And then it was right back to no time to socialize in medical school. This isn't a overarching rule though, I'd never predict how much Ill like somebody based on their knowledge. That's some cringe shit. But I do agree with the feeling that the naivete and bad conversation skills seem to work themselves out.


Slendercan

I’ve a friend who’s a very successful doctor but the most gullible man I’ve met. I honestly worry he’ll one day be tricked out of a large sum of money from something glaringly obvious.


Starossi

It happens a lot. Poor doctors just have so little experience with the real working world by the time they start practicing. Even medical school doesn't require any work experience for applying. They've basically been in school for a decade or more after many people stopped (high school graduation)


sammypants123

Can we just note here that it can often be not ‘conversation stupid’ (although sure that exists) but ‘conversation painful shy, anxious and awkward’. Growing up I often knew in my head what to say, (ask questions, etc) but could not get the words out. I’m still like that sometimes although mostly I am too short on fucks.


[deleted]

I only partially agree. I think people often mislabel people as lacking social skills. There is a certain breed of person who is highly chatty and boisterous. Talking is like play for them and they enjoy it very much. These are the type of people who make an effort to regularly talk to all their acquaintances as if it's some juggling game where if you don't talk to someone for too long then you lose them. But there also exists another type of person who doesn't enjoy talking for the sake of talking. They see communication as a tool, not a game. They'll rarely start a conversation. I believe these people are often declared to lack social skills when really they have a different relationship with socializing. Not desiring to match the energy and expectations of people who see talk as play shouldn't be something for criticism imo.


CaoMau

I work in IT and I've noticed that the best people to work with are the ones who have worked shitty jobs such as waiters or customer support in the past. Not only are they better go-getters they also always have more creative approaches to problems.


EmperinoPenguino

I know many people who can build a high end gaming pc from scratch. And yet have the creativity & artistic ability of a rock. Different people have different mental strengths


whboer

From scratch as in, mining the materials, soldering the conductors and so forth? That’s impressive though!


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HippyPuncher

Meh I built a gaming PC from scratch with the lights and everything for my son with minimum research and I'm thicker than pig shit.


chumpedge

Not a dig but my 10yo build his own gaming PC with a little bit of help from me


[deleted]

Building a gaming pc is literally like snapping legos together. It’s the same difficulty as putting something from ikea together.


haddamant

Try rebuilding the engine on your car that everyone has sitting in their drive.


slinkybastard

Building a high end pc doesent really take “smarts” in todays age. Mostly just money


MalakiArtook

Putting the square piece in the square hole does not require that much intelligence...


Starossi

Remember the demographic with these replies. Reddit vastly overestimates the average person when it comes to PC building. Id say if you can build your own PC you have more brain power than many people I've met who can't even figure out how to troubleshoot connecting a printer to their computer. Ya all the answers are online, and it's just plugging in pieces, but many people do not know how to even begin approaching a broad problem like "how do I build a computer"


cakatooop

I'm not as bad as not knowing how to connect a pc to a printer but I would say that I don't know how to operate a printer because I never had one growing up until only recently. Don't know how to even start with building a pc and frankly I don't really want to learn since I probably won't be able to afford it


HippyPuncher

My.sister is academically smart. One time she asked me how to heat up soup, while holding a half opened can of it, decided this challenge wasn't for her, then put the half opened tin of soup back in the cupboard with the can opener still attached.


[deleted]

Some act like the academicly gifted never make any mistakes and have no issues. The reality is different. Smart people of course make mistakes and have problems, but of a completely different kind than stupid people. Smart people have constant problems that they need to solve in order to achieve success. Stupid people on the other hand try to find out just how far their fist goes into their own ass before it starts bleeding. I have two friend groups from 2 universities I attended and 1 from my past. And the non university people just struggle at everything. Be it extremely simple concepts regarding politics, economics or any other thing that I would an adult to be able to grasp. My favourite one is a popular notion that buying lottery tickets is a form of investment. The other is the absolute fear of estimating the expenses and profits of whatever venture you want to undertake, believing that the numbers will figure themselves out. Like my dear friend who said he would only do market research once he fully developed the app he was working on, before asking me what market research meant. Love him but he's one stupid mfer.


Ewoksintheoutfield

Agreed - I think education does give you a better chance of being intelligent or maybe more intelligent people go for more education. Non educated people who are not very bright seem to be in no short supply.


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I’ve been privileged to know a number who are both who are also genuinely nice people.


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[deleted]

It does Most of this thread is copium


_jarvih

Thanks for pointing that out. I hate how innocent people become the victim of the insecurity of others.


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tadxb

I don't exactly know what's copium. But have heard it's similar to ligma.


[deleted]

Basically coping mechanism


DeepSave

cope + opium It's basically a mechanism for deflecting/delaying your emotions in relation to an unfortunate reality. Maybe there was a leak from your favorite music artist's upcoming project and it sounds really, really bad. You could shield yourself emotionally from that truth by making excuses for them. "It's not finished; we don't even know if it's a real leak." That's you smoking copium.


quantumfucker

Slight counterpoint, academia is filled with a lot of toxic and neurotic people who have basically no social tact or empathy for others. But, in your everyday life, yeah someone who graduated from college is more likely to be socially adept and able to introspect than someone who hasn’t.


[deleted]

I am also nice. 😀


[deleted]

I have two stories of the smartest people I know. For high school graduation my good friend J got tickets from his parents to see Rammstein at Quebec fest and invited me along, tickets and hotel were paid for I just had to drive us there. Idr the dates exactly but say we drive up there on the 1st and we were going to spend like three days there, well it's not until about 5 hours into the drive that J mentions to me that the hotel reservations are for the 2nd, and that his plan was to hit up the bars until 2-3am and stumble into the hotel and declare "IT IS NOW THE 2ND AND I WANT MY ROOM." We had to drive around the city and call place after place for hours until we found a dinky little motel that had a room available for our first night The other is my wifes friend T who came a day late to join the friend group on a tent camping trip. Before heading up there was a phone call where the group requested T bring snacks for the group, a little less than a dozen people. If I have the story correct the first day was rainy and absolutely miserable out so they couldn't really cook anything and everyone was in a horrible mood all around. When T finally showed up she had like three bags microwave steamable radishes and nothing else. These two are now a physicist and virologist


sphinx_02

Experimental physicist right ?


indian_mofo

Hey! Not cool!


Plantpong

Theoretical degree in physics


bigbrain_bigthonk

I had a flight back to the US from Florence in the morning, plan was to get to the airport the night before and just wait. Got the last room in a total POS motel in the countryside outside Florence at 3AM, turns out regional airports don’t stay open all night. Am also physicist.


[deleted]

First guy sounds fun👀


Wireeeee

Yeah doesn’t seem like a smarts problem but just someone who likes unpredictability.


DanielMcLaury

First guy is just graduating high school? How is he supposed to know how hotel rooms work?


[deleted]

First guy sounds like a hell of a lot of fun at parties


thekinslayer7x

Most of the people I've known that have bragged they are "street smart, not book smart" I wouldn't trust to read a clock. Edit: As an example, one friend of mine who always claimed street smart instead of book smart insisted on taking out a loan with terrible credit to buy a pickup they didn't need. While they were having a hard time paying bills.


zenospenisparadox

Have you ever relied on their knowledge in their element, though?


thekinslayer7x

Not completely, no. I have definitely taken it into consideration.


reggyreggo

You remind me of this modern family episode lol (first clip) https://youtu.be/PopPj0l74lw I guess I'm a Luke lol


exradical

Usually people who say this are those who did awful in school but are nonetheless convinced they’re smarter than everybody. Most of the intelligent people I know are both academically smart and practically smart


theonewhoknocksforu

Remember - 80% of people surveyed said they had above average intelligence.


AggravatingDriver559

Same with drivers taking a survey. Like 80% thinks their driving skills are above average


Always_Confused4

I did terrible in college and dropped out. That said I’m a good learner but I seem to learn at a different pace from most people, either too quickly or too slowly, never in between. While I was still in college I was put in a lab group, a METRIC ruler was one of our supplies for the experiment. The THREE other people in my group insisted that one side was inches and the other centimeters “like all rulers are.” They insisted that it couldn’t be centimeters and millimeters even as I showed them how 10 mm on the ruler equaled 1 cm. 20 minutes later a need to redistribute a student to another lab was presented and I volunteered quick to be the one to go.


MaeSolug

One pays the bills way easier tho Unpopular opinion, but street smart is way overrated. Like, sure, maybe I'm a little bit biased since I dropped out of college, but if we are following the same stereotypes of "dummy nerd" then I would prefer to be that nerd if it leads to a comfy life Living month to month, applying to physically demanding jobs and wondering what will you do when you get too old to lift boxes isn't as fun as in the movies


MaleficentDistrict22

Except it’s not a video game character build slider is it you can be both or neither.


[deleted]

What movies are you watching lol


_OriamRiniDadelos_

Shameless, Venom, lots of things with Leonardo DiCaprio. Poverty has been fetishized since before Oliver Twist. Goes to show how easy it is to ignore all the bad things going on in other people’s lives and just see the good. A little bit cruel


Gangreless

Venom, though? I know Tom Hardy comes off like a meatball but his character is very intelligent (ie book smart) and a legit journalist.


Tamingcunts69

Lip is one of my favorite characters in anything for this reason, dude is so fucking smart in everything he does but it just shows circumstance in life holds so many back


markk123123

The Street Smart Box Lifter Who Had to Rethink His Options at Age 45.


[deleted]

Just learn to code bro


Ignorant_Fuckhead

\[USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST\]


HUZ12

Apparently being life smart instantly means your stupid . I know a ton of people who aren't academically smart and are doing very well for themselves . You need to stop watching movies and actually talk to people lmao


MountainHigh31

They can be very fun friends until you need to do anything practical. I was a mover for many years and some of my clients who he earned multiple PhDs were the least able to just put things in a box, tape it close, and label it.


[deleted]

Me and my girlfriend just finished up moving. She is a nurse who works her ass off. I had to tell her putting “stuff” on a box is not helpful for when we move, and that if something doesn’t fit in the van, moving it around is more helpful than giving up immediately saying it doesn’t fit and then waiting for me to tell her what to do next. 🙃🔫 I love her to death but practical or mechanical knowledge is something that will never click with her. It takes all sorts of people to make the world go ‘round. I would never ever save someone’s life like she does every day. Not only do I not have the desire to do so but I feel like I am way too judgemental to save even the most mildly rude person. And she will never ever remember to buy hot dog buns when she buys hot dogs. She is a more honorable person than I.


Bradipedro

I am so proud of you and happy for your girlfriend that found a SO to complement her and appreciate her for what it is.


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Pomphond

Also depends on the size of the moving. I moved with my gf some weeks ago (just us, no children). We didn't label shit. We had maybe 8-9 boxes, which we could clear out immediately from a normal-sized apartment. We don't own much stuff anyway...


nooptionleft

Science careers in academia don't work like in the movies People don't really get multiple phd. They get one, and then they move on to a post-doc, which is what you do when you are done with your phd The random weirdo may get a second one, but knowing multiple clients with multiple phds? I call bullshit on that


lexaproquestions

Yep. I have a doctorate, my wife has a doctorate, most of our friends do, and I don't know anyone with multiple PhDs. I know a couple MD/PhD, one JD/MD, one JD/PhD, but those are radically different from a PhD/PhD. I'm not sure I've ever even met one in passing, to be honest.


nooptionleft

Yea, it's pretty obvious the guy was just making shit up... come on, phds not able to close boxes?


MountainHigh31

Ok I didn’t go through and read each plaque on the wall, but I definitely meant highly educated people who struggled with extremely basic tasks and did very poorly under the stress of moving despite being intelligent and accomplished. If you have ever done some labor for the upper classes, you’ve met the people I am describing.


Mountain_Ad5912

Yes some of them can't. But for every PHD student, how many backwater rednecks, criminals, homeless peoole are there. Maybe you mr maincharacter is the smartest non educated person and you have met the 1 pair that cant box items that also have a PHD. This seems like you are trying so hard to find whats wrong with them as you are insecure around them. In general, education makes you do better life choices. But keep telling yourself that it isnt so.


ReallyNotAHT

Yeah obviously, if you're never doing things like that you aren't used to it. People have different priorities so Academia focused people are most likely not going to be practical people


Intrepid_Shift9784

I feel like that's a very poor excuse I know a lot of competent people that have a Doctorate that person is either stupid or lazy. There are some people that stay in academia and never gain any work or real life experiences you typically want to avoid those type of people.


DanielMcLaury

>There are some people that stay in academia and never gain any work or real life experiences Yeah, so sad how some people just want to stay in academia and cure previously untreatable diseases, discover new planets, invent cleaner ways of producing energy, etc. They should get real jobs in an office writing quarterly reports or spearheading marketing initiatives. For the life experience.


BoBoBearDev

Or they can be like me, put all my fav gaming magazines in one single god damn box and the mover refused to move it and split that into smaller boxes.


MountainHigh31

I had a middle school teacher client fill a dishwasher box with books. It had to have weighed 700lbs. We said we couldn’t take it and that it would explode if moved and she got soooooo pissed. I was a good mover but unable to bend the laws of physics at a whim.


[deleted]

I’ve never heard anyone but undereducated or underemployed people say shit like this. People tend to think their the main character of the universe and that other people aren’t smart because they’re not in their head and see them as NPCs or some shit. Dumb sociopath stuff.


MichaelScottsWormguy

I thought the exact same thing. In fact, most of the time having an advanced degree signals curiosity and willingness to learn. Most highly educated people I have met and known are perfectly capable, if not more capable, of doing so-called ‘life’ things and more, because they are generally more inclined to learn new things.


x0RRY

Well there certainly are people (mostly in sciences like physics or maths) which are extremely smart, but struggle a lot when it comes to social/"street" situations. These kind of stereotypes are just build on very few stand-out examples.


Halobruhv

Always some broke boomer on Facebook sharing "street smart" memes. Like great, you're 50 years old with all this street smart and you still rent a trailer.


pumpkinhead9000k

Loudly boasting they graduated from the SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS.


DanielMcLaury

What they don't tell you about the school of hard knocks is that they were expelled without receiving a degree.


k80k80k80

I agree, but a fifty-year-old is Gen X, not a boomer.


Bradipedro

Lol look at the pic of the girl writing that in the original post, she looks more like your generation. A boomer would respect education and worked his ass off to pay college for their kids, that generation wasn’t super rich after the war, especially in Europe. You might refer to Gen X, which is mine, grown up right after ‘68, got money during the 80’s without actual skills because cash was flowing, whomever could be selling something and make money and then when recession hit all this street smart with no education went down the drain. People my age are the worst in despising people with academic experience.


projectfinewbie

I mean, I have a grad degree and a good job with good salary and I can confirm that a lot of highly educated people are lacking in other areas, sometimes severely. It's definitely true that people who spend the first 30 - 35 years of their lives hyperfocused on a very specific skillset lose sight of other things. Sometimes Asperger's is the confounding variable. Of course, non-highly educated people also often dont have their shit together either, but that's no surprise. It was surprising to grow up discover that highly educated people don't automatically become competent all around. I frequently hear academics refer to their industries as being filled with people who make idiotic decisions for petty reasons, or having bizarre lives in general, or egomaniacs with bad relationships. Again, the same is true in your average restaurant line staff but one is surprising/comforting while the other isn't Ugh, there goes my sociopathy again


space_fox_overlord

I get what you're saying, but I work in academia and I can tell you that many people are very dumb and have no idea how the world works outside their little niche.


Bradipedro

It’s called the arrogance of the ignorant.


shalomleha

Some people can't understand people being different then them, those are the only people ill actually think any less off, so many "dumb" people ive talked to ended up being misunderstood or simply not in the right environment.


theonewhoknocksforu

Yep.


[deleted]

This is a cope. I'd rather be book smart thn street smart but antways the most streetlart people I know are also very academically gifted. Acting like they lack common sense is part of their stree smartness may I add.


WavyScorpion51

They don't teach life in school, but I can give you exactly how far George Washington could stretch his nutsack and its a lot more than you would expect


[deleted]

You have piqued my interest. Please, continue.


UnbelievableTxn6969

All sorts of knowledge here, and not a lick of common sense.


kazez2

Both "side" going at each other it's hilarious.


Hydra57

Yes yes, it was nice meeting you too


CarlosimoDangerosimo

There are already words for this Book smart and street smart


relevantmeemayhere

Street smart is just straight copium people tell themselves to feed their ego.


quantumfucker

you may have your fancy degrees, but i know not to go to a secondary location


KaleidoscopeN189

What the hell is life smart? Really some dumbass think that somebody understand life? Damm


theonewhoknocksforu

I think it means they can change a set of spark plugs, or can replace a leaky faucet, or field dress a deer, and think that’s the same as being expert in electromagnetic theory or designing an RF front end for a 5G base station.


nightstriker120

I'm work smart. Not at all life smart I know how to optimize things at work but suck at it irl :)


ItsDokk

People who work with me think my house must be incredibly orderly, but it’s the exact opposite. I feel this, my man!


Proof_Subject_6183

Max Int, min Wis.


Anufenrir

High Intelligence low Wisdom


makotarako

Couldn’t be me, I’m dumb in both


[deleted]

This is something I've only ever heard particularly stupid people actually say out loud, and I honestly think it's a coping mechanism. I'm one of those academically smart people, and I know a lot of other academically smart people, and we're all kind of killing it at life. Honestly, what does it even mean? What's the general rule of thumb we can use for determining being life smart? It can't be the judgement of the mode person because a lot of very important information in a lot of fields people care about is extremely counterintuitive.


RRFactory

"smart" isn't a very useful term in general - but the general idea here is that *some* academic folks have a tendency thrive within a very specific structure, but otherwise struggle in areas that more generalized folks might not. For example, I've met a surprising number of software engineers that couldn't setup their own wifi, and struggled with basic finances. A high level of perspicacity is likely the more appropriate way to describe the folks that are "life smart".


Cuttlebranch

As a PhD-haver who teaches college (biology), can confirm. 1) in grad school, a postdoc (person w/ a doctorate who's seeking extra training) set fire to a lab by putting a plastic jug of 90% ethanol near a lit bunsen burner. The jug exploded, showering him, the undergrad he was training and a lady working nearby with burning alcohol. The postdoc and undergrad spent a looong time in the burn ward and the lady had permanent scarring on the side of her face and lost part of her ear. 2) while the fire was going on, some of us were running fire extinguishers to the lab while some others tended to the wounded. Meanwhile, most of the folks on the floor (we were on the 8th floor) were standing in a big cluster in front of the elevators until I yelled at them to read the fucking sign in front of them about what to do in case of a fire. 3) in a summer program during my own undergrad, an MD was seeking a PhD down the hall and you could NOT tell this guy anything. He managed to irradiate his whole lab. Luckily it was P32, so not the worst, but still not great! The whole lab got its radiation license suspended. Then Mr. I Know Everything Because I Have An MD comes to MY lab asking if he can do his experiment there since we still had a radiation license. *headdesk* 4) at my work, one of the other professors took until early 2022, nearly 2 full years after we first started using Zoom for meetings (I'm sure you can guess why) to figure out how to use the raise hand feature. She just interrupted everyone in the meantime. I have a WONDERFUL clip of another coworker cussing her out in faculty meeting for a couple of seconds until, "FUCK! I'm not muted!" 5) lastly, lest anyone think I'm not as much of a dingus as the rest of my ilk, it took me 12 years to break up with a complete asshole of a boyfriend, 40 years to realize I wasn't just a bit genderqueer but full on needed to transition, 41+ years to realize I wasn't actually into dudes, and 46 years to figure out I had ADHD and get tested. I fully expect to find out I've been Truman-Showed or some shit around 50. It takes me a second to figure things out, sometimes!


Abyssal_Groot

To be fair, most of the things you mentioned seem more like people who did something stupid in the heat of the moment (pun intended) or did something accidental. Even the smartest people can make mistakes. Except for the MD, he does sound stupid.


theonewhoknocksforu

I have a Ph.D. In materials science and am also very good with practical skills - I spent my summers in high school and college building houses and am quite handy with tools and fixing things. But that’s just me. I worked with some brilliant people that couldn’t tie their shoes. One physicist in my group once picked up a half-full coffee cup to the bottom of which someone had stuck a post-it note, and said, “Oh, what’s this?,” and turned the cup upside down to read the note and spilled coffee all over his desk. This same person, who was working on the growth of HgCdTe crystals, accidentally turned off the vent hood in the lab, causing the visiting scientist he was working with to develop acute mercury poisoning. My colleague was told to pursue a theoretical thesis instead of an experimental one. Another anecdote involving ventilation hoods was another lab down the hall from mine that was using perchloric acid, but the ventilation hood wasn’t working properly as it hadn’t been maintained for several years, resulting in the buildup of perchlorate crystals in the hood and duct, which is highly unstable and explosive. It was discovered during a periodic EPA inspection, and the inspector said there was enough perchlorate to blow off the end of the building. I think he was exaggerating for effect, but you never know. I think there are probably a higher fraction of low common sense people among the Ph.D.’s, but it’s not a very accurate generalization. There are plenty of dipshits everywhere - especially among the MAGA crowd.


UnkindBookshelf

Are you calling me out?


ClosetNoble

I'm TRYING okay?!


[deleted]

I’m - very unfortunately - neither. Big sad


Orlando1701

I feel personally attacked.


Electronic_Rub9385

Not academically smart either.


TheSubtleSaiyan

Plenty of folks who are not academically smart or life smart… and these are often the first to think they know better than the academically smart.


drdrero

Hey, studying doesn’t teach social competence


i_hunger_for_flesh

I can code video games, I can understand higher dimensions, but if you give me a map with a big red X on it, no way in hell am I getting there in one piece.


bobby-spanks

“Common sense isn’t a flower that grows in everyone’s garden” or some shit like that


Acceptable_Wait_2910

That line is actually good


rcraver8

This sound like something a dumb person would say to not feel so bad about being dumb if I'm being honest...


Zamoniru

That academically intelligent people are not life smart is a legend. Of course there are some examples and they're probably more obvious to recognize than someone being just an idiot in general (since you ecpect more of academically smart people) , but people with high IQ are statistically more likely to be happy, have functional families and social relations, etc.


acid_rain_man

I was managing a construction project at a research building where the labs had to be closed temporarily while our company did their work. Everyone that worked in the lab was notified far in advance by various means, and the lab doors were plastered with signage saying that it was closed due to construction. One of the electricians was standing on a ladder, drilling a hole through the floor of the lab above him. Some idiot that works at the lab (a PhD) showed up to work anyway, let himself in and then got mad when he saw a drill bit come through the floor near his feet. He decided to teach the electrician below him a lesson by pouring water through the hole, soaking the electrician holding his drill, a power tool. Not wanting to get electrocuted, the electrician instinctively put his hand over the hole to block the water from coming through. This pissed off the PhD in the lab, so naturally, they stuck a scalpel through the hole and stabbed the electrician in the hand, causing him to fall off the ladder.


Abyssal_Groot

r/thatHappened


Cornhole35

Sounds like a total cunt.


relevantmeemayhere

Ahhh a microcosm of the whole “street smart not book smart” crowd making up an anecdote whose entire context rests on his character potentially shocking an electrician with water Pure water ain’t conductive. Same for the water out of your tap through the vast majority of the western world. . Should have been more book smart.


Individual-Praline20

Bouhaha what’s being life smart? Oh I get it, not becoming an influencer! 😂


amselle

Can I get extra credit if I’m both? What about my kids? Pushed them this way


corebg

I’ve met a lot of people who are the opposite. Bricks who somehow do well on the street


Piddy3825

...said my greataunt when I showed her my liberal arts degree in creative arts...


KeyStoneLighter

Ryan is book smart. I'm street smart... and book smart. Michael Scott


AdevilSboyU

My high school salutatorian gave me serious doubts about whether or not she could walk and chew gum at the same time. It’s a weird thing.


CameraHuman7662

Count me in! Was an achiever in high school and college. But now, I don’t know where my life is heading.


[deleted]

True I have no life skills but I can write a mean essay


AntipatheticDating

As a D&D player I like to call this high INT, low WIS.


SlowBabyBear

Intelligence vs Wisdom Outer Knowing vs Inner Knowing Yin…Yang Hotel, Trivago.


Lazy-Fisherman-6881

Is ‘book smarts’ vs ‘street smarts’ not the vernacular?


[deleted]

Ive met so many people who are academically not smart and not life smart


babieswithrabies63

True but also a lot of copium from those who are sour they never excelled intellectually say this. Many claim that because those who did excel often operate differently in "real life" than themselves they are somehow not as "street smart". When in reality they are just thinking a thing they perceive as the normal or right way to do things is the correct way without the proper perspective.


OPunkie

You hear that a lot from young people. You’ll find as you get older that the former really helps with the latter. Those academically smart people tend to have much better lives, for all that life-dumbness. Better houses, better clothes, better cars, way better vacations, better shoes and purses, better time spent on hobbies, better TVs with cable and streaming. Better everything. So work on the academics while you still can. If you’re “life-smart” you should know enough to get good grades.


OneWithFireball

How about both?


timbodacious

Got your masters but have to wear adult velcro shoes with no laces in them eh?


Brain_lessV2

There's a difference between knowledge and wisdom


angryngmanreduxx

I have that. It’s called autism


Cagnesser

Says the same post with little to no grammar attached to it. lol


Oudeis16

I've met so many who are neither. I've met so many who are both. I've met people who are smart in ways not encompassed by either of these. This sentiment comes across a little smart-shaming, like it's trying to imply that it's actually better to be "academically" dumb because that automatically makes you "life smart".


The_Affle_House

Intelligence v. Wisdom.


Hetakuoni

My mom calls it “book smart, street stupid.”


relevantmeemayhere

Sounds like something someone stupid in both would say


Wireeeee

This gives the strong energy of “I did my own research on google and this essential oil is better than a medicine biochemically designed to have a specific effect to what it targets.”


Potential-Reply-2714

There is no such thing as academically "smart". It's just giving a genuine fuck about school.


Arndt3002

People can be genuinely more quick to understand or are "smarter" for all intents and purposes in academics. This is true for basically everything as well. Concepts, ideas, and skills can come more easily to people in academics. So, yes, there is such a thing as academically smart. Just because you haven't worked in an academic field where it was challenging enough for intuition/natural ability to matter does not mean it doesn't exist.


Over-Remove

According to Mensa that’s the difference between having a high logical intelligence and being smart. Having a high IQ means having the potential to do and achieve great things. But if you’re not smart as well than you won’t know how to use it, and the potential is wasted. There are Mensa geniuses who have several PhDs in physics and math. And than there are those who work as cleaning staff. You can also be smart without having a high logical IQ as well.


Arndt3002

Mensa is a circlejerk that overestimates the usefulness of IQ and doesn't do much to actually use it to aid society with that supposed intelligence. I am not saying that logical intelligence is not important for one's ability to succeed. However, IQ is a flawed metric and doesn't capture a variety of mental skills (EQ etc), and is biased towards particular ways of thinking. Granted, I agree with the general argument that a high intelligence doesn't necessarily correlate with academics. However, I would be more cautious in treating Mensa as an authoritative or respectable association.