On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:04:06 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:

.do people who are severely brain damaged
know that they are .......well, severely brain damaged?


No, they don't. There was an actual study some shrink type once did.
The more intelligent people are, the more likely they are to judge
their own intelligence and knowledge of a subject properly. The less
most often goof and adjudge themselves to be 'as good as anyone else.'
or to be superior to many people they are proven not to be.

Doesn't speak directly to your point, as he was studying intelligence
and testable knowledge in college students, but one (or at least this
one) can make the leap to from brain damage to IQ with little in the
way of pitfalls being a worry.

Now if we go to common sense, we've got a whole different thing going.
I've met some people on SSI who were so low IQ that it was astounding
they could dress themselves who showed a decent amount of common
sense. And we all know the converse. People of high IQ who think
that that's the whole story, so they must be making good decisions.
Or who are so immersed in their thoughts that they don't watch out for
traffic.
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