- 26 Mar 2015 09:57
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Understanding One Another
Personal insults in discussions do not bother me personally, but they do bother me intellectually.
They reduce the debate to ‘me’ and ‘you’ when many people do not debate from this perspective.
When I talk about people having different levels of understanding and reasoning, I am not making a personal statement that ‘I am smarter than you’. I am stating an obvious fact that most humans do not take into account.
I will use IQ as an example, but please do not interpret this as an IQ argument. It is just meant as a symbol for the distribution of reasoning that humans may have.
Anyone with an IQ of 120 or more (probably less) can acquire the same level of factual knowledge as anyone else. This does not mean they utilize this knowledge in the same way. We tend to base our arguments upon this knowledge and ignore the reasoning behind it because we only understand reasoning up to our level of understanding.
If you have an IQ of 120, then only 1 out of 11 people have a higher IQ.
90% of the people you communicate with will probably have a level of understanding less than you. This creates a habit of assuming what does not make sense to you is because the person is not making sense.
Now consider that 600,000,000 people on earth have an IQ higher than 120.
27,000,000 have an IQ higher than 140.
200,000 have an IQ higher than 160.
35 have an IQ higher than 180.
Even if you have an IQ of 180, it is still possible to encounter people with higher reasoning ability.
You will encounter people that you are not capable of understanding.
You have no way of knowing what level of reasoning they are operating from.
Their reasoning will not be based upon ‘me’ and ‘you’.
Their reasoning will be foreign to you.
Do not dismiss them with insults.
Do not insist they base their arguments upon ‘conventional’ wisdom.
Do not expect them to believe the people and events of the past have any relevance.
Bottom line, if you encounter someone that you believe is ‘stupid’, then stop and consider why you believe this.
Ignore them if you wish, but don’t insult them.
They may be the hope for the future.
Edit: The higher someone is on these levels, the more likely they are to isolate themselves. They get very frustrated by others not being able to understand them We need to look for these people and try to welcome them. We need their voices.
The next time you are tempted to make statements such as; “Can’t you read”, “Are you incapable of understanding”, then realize there is up to a 10% chance that you are the one drawing an inferior understanding to the facts presented. We can all understand the facts, but we interpret them differently.
In an environment such as POFO, your chances of having an inferior understanding increase to 50%.
Personal insults in discussions do not bother me personally, but they do bother me intellectually.
They reduce the debate to ‘me’ and ‘you’ when many people do not debate from this perspective.
When I talk about people having different levels of understanding and reasoning, I am not making a personal statement that ‘I am smarter than you’. I am stating an obvious fact that most humans do not take into account.
I will use IQ as an example, but please do not interpret this as an IQ argument. It is just meant as a symbol for the distribution of reasoning that humans may have.
Anyone with an IQ of 120 or more (probably less) can acquire the same level of factual knowledge as anyone else. This does not mean they utilize this knowledge in the same way. We tend to base our arguments upon this knowledge and ignore the reasoning behind it because we only understand reasoning up to our level of understanding.
If you have an IQ of 120, then only 1 out of 11 people have a higher IQ.
90% of the people you communicate with will probably have a level of understanding less than you. This creates a habit of assuming what does not make sense to you is because the person is not making sense.
Now consider that 600,000,000 people on earth have an IQ higher than 120.
27,000,000 have an IQ higher than 140.
200,000 have an IQ higher than 160.
35 have an IQ higher than 180.
Even if you have an IQ of 180, it is still possible to encounter people with higher reasoning ability.
You will encounter people that you are not capable of understanding.
You have no way of knowing what level of reasoning they are operating from.
Their reasoning will not be based upon ‘me’ and ‘you’.
Their reasoning will be foreign to you.
Do not dismiss them with insults.
Do not insist they base their arguments upon ‘conventional’ wisdom.
Do not expect them to believe the people and events of the past have any relevance.
Bottom line, if you encounter someone that you believe is ‘stupid’, then stop and consider why you believe this.
Ignore them if you wish, but don’t insult them.
They may be the hope for the future.
Edit: The higher someone is on these levels, the more likely they are to isolate themselves. They get very frustrated by others not being able to understand them We need to look for these people and try to welcome them. We need their voices.
The next time you are tempted to make statements such as; “Can’t you read”, “Are you incapable of understanding”, then realize there is up to a 10% chance that you are the one drawing an inferior understanding to the facts presented. We can all understand the facts, but we interpret them differently.
In an environment such as POFO, your chances of having an inferior understanding increase to 50%.
I dream of the United Citystates of Earth, where each Citystate has a standardized border such as one whole degree of Latitude by one whole degree of Longitude.