Nomen Nescio writes:

And you lack the basic knowledge the determine which is which.

Actually, I do not. I have a certain background knowledge of methods
of intelligence estimation and measurement, as well as some
significant experience with both people of very low intelligence and
people of very high intelligence. It is possible to estimate the
intelligence range of a person with a certain amount of interaction.

Let me guess. The smart ones agree with you and the stupid ones
don't.

No. The smart ones explain their position in detail, and everything
fits, and their reasoning and premises are sound and free of obvious
flaws. The stupid ones get emotional, engage in personal attacks, and
believe that simply asserting their answers to be correct should be
sufficient reason for anyone to accept them without further question.
The contrast is usually very obvious.

Everyone tends to rely on emotion when intellect runs low. The lower
the intellect to start with, the quicker the resort to emotion. Thus,
people who fly off the handle as soon as their assertions are
questioned often are not very bright. Those who explain why they
believe their assertions to be correct often are.

There are also many fallacies in debate that are highly correlated
with low intelligence.

But they ALL know more about flying than you.

No, unfortunately, they do not. If that were actually true, things
would be much easier.

What I see is that most real pilots know certain things that I do not,
and from that they incorrectly extrapolate that I know nothing and
they know everything, or that they know more across the board than I
do. Logically, at least the latter would be consistently the case,
but I see too many exceptions.

Too many of my questions, for example, have produced debate between
real pilots that would not occur if they all knew exactly what they
were talking about. Clearly, they don't know. If I cannot get a
consensus, I usually discard everything or nearly everything I've been
told and I look to other sources.

They're the ones that don't think you are an idiot. Right?

No, they are the ones who can successfully support any statement they
make, with a cool head.

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