Scientists are Idiots Outside Their Field of Expertise

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Notes:

"...and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous."

Folksonomies: intelligence expertise

Taxonomies:
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/business and industrial (0.137713)
/society/racism (0.130735)

Keywords:
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Concepts:
Intelligence quotient (0.878864): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc

 Sense and nonsense in psychology
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Eysenck , Hans Jürgen (1968), Sense and nonsense in psychology, Retrieved on 2012-04-30
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  • Folksonomies: body mind spirit