{"id":242,"date":"2009-09-24T01:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-09-11T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:16:43","slug":"being-smart-and-being-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2009\/09\/being-smart-and-being-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Smart and Being Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Quick, read the following and agree or disagree:<\/p>\n<p>Smart people are wrong more often than stupid people.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the above is true. It seems that smart people read, study, think, and propose ideas more often than stupid people. Stupid people seem to sit around and choose-your-own-stupid-activity (e.g. watch TV, surf the net, take a nap&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>An example with some numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Person:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5% error rate<\/li>\n<li>1,000 proposed ideas<\/li>\n<li>Wrong 50 times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stupid Person:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20% error rate<\/li>\n<li>100 proposed ideas<\/li>\n<li>Wrong 20 times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See, the smart person is wrong more often than the stupid person.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this the next time you wish so-and-so would stop with the wrong ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Quick, read the following and agree or disagree: Smart people are wrong more often than stupid people. I believe the above is true. It seems that smart people read, study, think, and propose ideas more often than stupid people. Stupid people seem to sit around and choose-your-own-stupid-activity (e.g. watch TV, surf the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,10],"tags":[142,136,133],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-logic","category-people","tag-learning","tag-logic","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}