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People who think they know it all—or at least, a lot—may be on to something, according to a Baylor University study.
The finding was a surprise to researchers at Baylor and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, who had theorized that "intellectual humility"—having an accurate or moderate view of one's intelligence and being open to criticism and ideas—would correlate with grades.
But being full of oneself when it came to rating one's intellectual arrogance—an exaggerated view of intellectual ability and knowledge—instead generally predicted academic achievement, especially on individual course work, according to the study. The research—"Contrasting self-report and consensus ratings of intellectual humility and arrogance"—is published in the Journal of Research in Personality and funded by a grant from The John Templeton Foundation.
"One possibility is that people who view themselves as intellectually arrogant know what they know and that translates to increases in academic performance," said researcher Wade C. Rowatt, Ph.D., Baylor professor of psychology and neuroscience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 09 2015, @10:46PM
There is a reason the guy did not come near you again. Not because you were 'right' or 'wrong'. But because you were an ass about it.
This is a good way to go about life. https://xkcd.com/1053/ [xkcd.com]
When you come at someone with the dick attitude they will dislike you and ignore anything you have to say. It will not mater if you are right. You will get sidelined and ignored. A better way to go about it would be to say 'check this out here is what I learned' then draw out the proof. 'but maybe you have a better way can you show me what you are doing? Because I may have been taught wrong?'. Then let him show you. You can then say 'hey I dont understand this bit here shouldnt it be xyz?'. At that point they will question what they did because they will have to explain it and they will self correct. Your attitude cut you off from someone who possibly you could have learned from or they from you.
Also for your problem you could 'cheat'. What if you went thru the middle of one of the buildings and the endpoints were on the 'outside' of the buildings? You are not technically crossing the lines. But the problem is not exactly precise on its wording usually. If the lines go all the way to the middle then yes they must cross in a 2d plane.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Saturday October 10 2015, @02:33AM
You've assumed I was a dick about it.
This was on the QE2. It's a fine-dining kind of cruise ship, with lots of interesting people. Met some fabulous people there. Played Scrabble against this guy and was talking to him for hours. He had all kinds of yarns, we listened to them all.
And what I did was almost exactly what you said. I'm a mathematician. I love puzzles. I would have been greatly interested in anything, even if it was just a "puzzle trick" like going through the buildings (proving the limits of the classic node/edge problem for any number of nodes/houses, edges/lines is pretty trivial), or the paper, or some kind of jiggery-pokery with the pen.
What happened was that I said I'd be greatly interested in that, and pressed him for a solution. He wouldn't give it, because "well, you're the mathematician", etc. so I verbally had him eliminate classes of trickery until we were both on the same page (i.e. the classic problem), then demonstrated a quick proof. And at that, he get very stroppy and stopped playing and refused to co-operate and - a few minutes later - left us still insisting he had a way.
I didn't particularly care, there was plenty else to do and I'd have carried on listening to his tales (no matter how tall) because he was a charismatic guy, a loveable eccentric like a couple of other people in my family who I get on well with even when they're talking bollocks. He could have just changed the subject, I wouldn't have pressed him. I didn't say a word about his claim to have invented Uno 20 years ago - he actually approached us because we were playing that very game on the tables on the ship.
But if you're going to throw a paddy, then learn to accept criticism, or change the subject so you're not being rude. Nobody cares if I'm right or he is. Not even us.