Richardthughes
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LOL@alphamale.Vox.day:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008....of.html
| Quote | Is Sam Harris intellectually superior to Myers in your view?
Certainly. PZ could never have gotten into Stanford, for one thing. PZ's probably okay within his element; he provided a useful definition of science, for example, but he's got so little knowledge of history, religion, world culture and philosophy that it's hard to know where his ignorance stops and his idiocy begins. Sam strikes me as someone who is more careless than stupid; I really don't think he expected his success and so I think he's in the process of stepping back a little and revising some of his previous assumptions.
It's hard to understand why the New Atheists act the way they do until you realize that they're really not as intelligent as advertised. They're certainly not stupid, but they're not brilliant either, they're all in the 1SD-2SD range. Popularizers like Dawkins, Sagan, and Feynman are seldom particularly intelligent; they're smart enough to understand the highly intelligent but close enough to the average be able to communicate effectively to the masses. Feynman's IQ, for example, was closer to the norm than it was to mine. One thing I found ironic is that Dawkins and I appear to do poorly on the same aspect of IQ tests - spatial relations - what accounts for the difference between us and may explain my logical advantage is that I do as well on the math as the verbal. |
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