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To: Enlightened1

My experience is useful intelligence peaks at the Master’s level.

People with a PhD know one tiny subject very well, but don’t understand anything about the rest of the world.


2 posted on 08/11/2021 7:27:59 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

My experience is that PHDs know a lot of other “experts”, and have learned that the “experts” that appear in public are whores for big corporations and big government.


4 posted on 08/11/2021 7:31:58 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Renfrew

I’ll say this (just based on limited contact in life with PhD folks)...if you measured them on pure skeptical nature, they’d measure higher than most other levels of education, on any topic.


6 posted on 08/11/2021 7:33:51 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Renfrew

Your refutation is that PhD’ s have less practical intelligence. And your source is .... wait for it...

You.

Beautiful- beautiful propaganda. Nice job!


8 posted on 08/11/2021 7:38:41 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Renfrew
My experience is useful intelligence peaks at the Master’s level.

My post-graduate studies brain told me that forcing experimental vaccines on a population for a 99.8% survivable virus is dubious at best and most likely pernicious. I have little time for credulous masses pushing WHO / CDC talking points.
9 posted on 08/11/2021 7:39:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Renfrew

You don’t get a PhD by agreeing with everything you see without facts and evidence to support it.

Try again.


11 posted on 08/11/2021 7:45:40 AM PDT by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, MAGA)
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To: Renfrew
People with a PhD know one tiny subject very well, but don’t understand anything about the rest of the world.

There are people with paper PhDs, and those who have something more. The most intelligent man I ever knew well had a PhD in philosophy from Princeton (late '60s!), knew 15 languages (Latin, Greek, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Gaelic, Arabic, Spanish, Quechua, etc.) and had great insights on all sorts of things both political and historical. He DID struggle with the microwave, though.
12 posted on 08/11/2021 7:46:07 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Renfrew

They hand out Master Degrees like candy over the last 30 years.

Sorry STRONGLY disagree.


15 posted on 08/11/2021 7:57:34 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Renfrew
My experience is useful intelligence peaks at the Master’s level. People with a PhD know one tiny subject very well, but don’t understand anything about the rest of the world.

What an odd observation given that almost everyone who has a doctorate (PhD) first obtained at least one master's degree. To go from the peak of useful intelligence to not understanding anything about the rest of the world is quite a slide.

17 posted on 08/11/2021 8:05:30 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Renfrew
My experience is useful intelligence peaks at the Master’s level.

Define "useful". In my experience, the people who live the best lives often don't even have a college degree.
19 posted on 08/11/2021 8:07:26 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Renfrew

My dad hired quite a few PhD researchers in his career. He often said “they don’t know which end of a hammer to pick up.” But they sure could solve the most challenging technical problems.


23 posted on 08/11/2021 8:22:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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