>>No, telling people it's good to be smart, and then picking on them for being or acting smart, is stifling humanity's creative potential.<<
Sounds like the old "Make everyone equal" argument.
I'll believe it when they start treating CEOs and waitresses the same... "Well if he wanted a better job he'd go back to school and get a real job!"
>>...which is useful for things like software development, where you need smart coders making products for mostly much-less-smart end users...<<
Also for any project reliant on widely divergent skill, regardless of intelligence. I run into this with languages - it is often easier for each person to do whatever work [research or paperwork] in their own language, then communicate a simplified version across the language barrier.
If not fluent, it is also often a good idea to have a native speaker glance at output produced in a second language (pronunciation, writing-copied-as-imgage, or original written output).
This might mean that some tasks (like filling out forms) are best assigned by language fluency, rather than intelligence of red-tape-ninja skills.
Also worth noting, any product that will be used by persons widely different than the producer, should be reviewed by one (or several) people in the end user demographic. Applies to intelligence, gender, skill levels, education... the list goes on.
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Sounds like the old "Make everyone equal" argument.
I'll believe it when they start treating CEOs and waitresses the same... "Well if he wanted a better job he'd go back to school and get a real job!"
>>...which is useful for things like software development, where you need smart coders making products for mostly much-less-smart end users...<<
Also for any project reliant on widely divergent skill, regardless of intelligence. I run into this with languages - it is often easier for each person to do whatever work [research or paperwork] in their own language, then communicate a simplified version across the language barrier.
If not fluent, it is also often a good idea to have a native speaker glance at output produced in a second language (pronunciation, writing-copied-as-imgage, or original written output).
This might mean that some tasks (like filling out forms) are best assigned by language fluency, rather than intelligence of red-tape-ninja skills.
Also worth noting, any product that will be used by persons widely different than the producer, should be reviewed by one (or several) people in the end user demographic. Applies to intelligence, gender, skill levels, education... the list goes on.