Do you think academic performance factors into whether or not someone is intelligent?

[Extraterrestrial1999]

Like do you assume that someone is smart, if they have a Masters, PhD, etc.

Yes

No

[ShadezMcgee]

Just because one paid money and received a piece of paper with their name on it in a specialized field of study does not mean one is intelligent. There is no correlation between degrees and intelligence. There are people without college degrees that are millionaires and successful.

More often than not you just put yourself in more debt and you increase earning potential. Doesn't mean it will happen.

[Manab]

You are really stupid , a lot of smart people actually get scholarships. Sure many Master's and phds are stupid as fuck but a lot of them are still way intelligent that any uneducated person can even ever imagine. Most intelligent once actually care less about money , if Tim Berners Lee wanted to monetize world wide web , he would have been richer than riches the world ever seen. If those researches never made vaccines , and antibiotics for free , most people would have died very early like in history.

[ShadezMcgee]

@Manab in what way was what I said stupid? It is true. Just because you paid for a degree to hopefully specialize and use for employment does not make one intelligent. All it is is a piece of paper signifying that you completed higher education.

We weren't talking scholarships, the question revolves around degrees, so that opening to your petty response was irrelevant. So, before you try to flex any further, understand my words do hold merit as there are people minus degrees that are intelligent and produce for themselves just fine.

There are others on this thread that agree with what I amhave said and have said similar things. Try again.

[Tyrael]

No. There's some really dumb smart people out there.

[Anonymous]

Depends really on what they have their masters, PhD etc in, I mean like physics vs gender studies. A lot people go to college and basically slog it out for a very easy basic degree that honestly could have been completed in an online course or community college with 3-6 months.

[BrookeAZ90]

I know some people who graduated college by trying really hard but they're not the smartest people. And the smartest person I know didn't finish college because he didn't want to take all the arbitrary courses necessary for graduation that he "didn't care about"

[exitseven]

It does but not as much as other factors. There are many people who do well in the classroom that are just plain dumb.

[misogynistic_pig]

Only if it is in nursing, statistics, systems engineering or medicine.

[Anonymous]

My university professors has phd etc but still dumb as fuck, you can tell that academic smart is not ALL that