Hierarchical Intelligence amongst peers.

In other words, do you ever have the right to treat people with contempt when they criticise you for simply talking about or having views on a certain subject and how you voice that view.

In class I often experience people trying to bring me down or fire me down when I express educated political/philosophical views that I believe are well reasoned and logically consistent. I don't know tonnes about politics but I know enough to talk about a lot of topics and whenever I voice my opinion in a strong assertive way, I'm fired down and accused of 'thinking I'm right all the time' when the people who do this, from when I listen to them try and talk about these topics, know almost nothing at all about the subject.

Are they wrong to criticise me when they don't even understand the content?

And relating back to the title, although there are more intelligent people than others, do those who're more intelligent have good reason to not take the less intelligent people seriously when they try and shout their opinion on topics they know nothing about

I would say we do have that right, mainly because those who have learnt about the subject have spent time and effort trying to understand it.

I fear this mightn't have made sense but I'm sure someone has experienced this before.... thoughts?


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In other words, do you ever have the right to treat people with contempt when they criticise you for simply talking about or having views on a certain subject and how you voice that view.

In class I often experience people trying to bring me down or fire me down when I express educated political/philosophical views that I believe are well reasoned and logically consistent. I don't know tonnes about politics but I know enough to talk about a lot of topics and whenever I voice my opinion in a strong assertive way, I'm fired down and accused of 'thinking I'm right all the time' when the people who do this, from when I listen to them try and talk about these topics, know almost nothing at all about the subject.

Are they wrong to criticise me when they don't even understand the content?

And relating back to the title, although there are more intelligent people than others, do those who're more intelligent have good reason to not take the less intelligent people seriously when they try and shout their opinion on topics they know nothing about

I would say we do have that right, mainly because those who have learnt about the subject have spent time and effort trying to understand it.

I fear this mightn't have made sense but I'm sure someone has experienced this before.... thoughts?


Posted from TSR Mobile

One of the more interesting revelations I've had has been the realisation that people's certainty is rarely correlated with the likelihood they're actually right. There is a known phenomenon in psychology called the Dunning-Kruger effect which demonstrates that certainty is often correlated with ignorance (and the same is true inversely). People tend to hold strong opinions on topics where they have not been sufficiently exposed to reasons to doubt their position. So I think yes, they are probably wrong to criticise you.