Very insightful stuff from Steiner. I’m intrigued by the high IQ person who gets brainwashed (I know a few of them). I can imagine a situation where two high IQ individuals, one who could be easily brainwashed and one who would be impervious to brainwashing are in a room with each other.
How would they regard each other?
I would imagine that the “brainwashable “ would assume that they are probably smarter than the other. But the other wouldn’t.
Give the intelligent with no humility some awards and titles and they will buy the narrative.
Perhaps humility should be part of the IQ formula.
How can we design a test to see what makes a very smart person easier/harder to brainwash?
In the Big 5 personality test there is the factor "Agreeableness" which is made up of two scores: Compassion and Politeness. I scored moderately high in compassion (66th percentile) and very low in Politeness (9th percentile)--and completely average in Assertiveness.
My read from that is the test questions for "Politeness" are actually tracking for Compliance.
I am tagging ya as intelligent and my comment is not brainwashing but rather a simple observation by another intelligent human 😎… "Stupid is as stupid does" from Forrest Gump means that a person's intelligence is judged by their actions rather than their appearance or claims. It emphasizes that one's behavior reflects their true intelligence…So ‘intelligence is as intelligence does’…But…Ummm….I do stupid things on occasion…
Very insightful stuff from Steiner. I’m intrigued by the high IQ person who gets brainwashed (I know a few of them). I can imagine a situation where two high IQ individuals, one who could be easily brainwashed and one who would be impervious to brainwashing are in a room with each other.
How would they regard each other?
I would imagine that the “brainwashable “ would assume that they are probably smarter than the other. But the other wouldn’t.
Give the intelligent with no humility some awards and titles and they will buy the narrative.
Perhaps humility should be part of the IQ formula.
How can we design a test to see what makes a very smart person easier/harder to brainwash?
In the Big 5 personality test there is the factor "Agreeableness" which is made up of two scores: Compassion and Politeness. I scored moderately high in compassion (66th percentile) and very low in Politeness (9th percentile)--and completely average in Assertiveness.
My read from that is the test questions for "Politeness" are actually tracking for Compliance.
I am tagging ya as intelligent and my comment is not brainwashing but rather a simple observation by another intelligent human 😎… "Stupid is as stupid does" from Forrest Gump means that a person's intelligence is judged by their actions rather than their appearance or claims. It emphasizes that one's behavior reflects their true intelligence…So ‘intelligence is as intelligence does’…But…Ummm….I do stupid things on occasion…
Agreed. Clever is as clever does...