I believed the first two, one out of personal experience and the other out of System 1. I guessed that as a soft, water-fat intellectual, I’d have more trouble adjusting to a military lifestyle than someone who’s actually been in a fight in his life. And that people from warmer climes deal with warmer temperatures more easily, well, I guess I believe people adapt to their circumstances. People from a warmer climate might sweat more and drink more water, or use less energy to generate less heat, whereas a man in Siberia might move more than is strictly necessary to keep his body temperature stable.
The other three are in subjects I know nothing about, and therefore I couldn’t have predicted them. A wise man knows his limits...
I’ve had a nagging sense of wrongness about #1, not so much about #5, which were the two that I knew the truth about.
While it might be true that intelectuals have trouble adapting to military lifestyle, actual combat is a whole different animal in that respect. It is also different from the type of fighting that goes on in typical civilian life.
Other than that, why would you assume that intelectuals wouldn’t be better predisposed to figguring out what they’re supposed to do to stay alive and accomplish the mission? Particularly as they’re more used to thinking than the average guy.
I believed the first two, one out of personal experience and the other out of System 1. I guessed that as a soft, water-fat intellectual, I’d have more trouble adjusting to a military lifestyle than someone who’s actually been in a fight in his life. And that people from warmer climes deal with warmer temperatures more easily, well, I guess I believe people adapt to their circumstances. People from a warmer climate might sweat more and drink more water, or use less energy to generate less heat, whereas a man in Siberia might move more than is strictly necessary to keep his body temperature stable.
The other three are in subjects I know nothing about, and therefore I couldn’t have predicted them. A wise man knows his limits...
I’ve had a nagging sense of wrongness about #1, not so much about #5, which were the two that I knew the truth about.
While it might be true that intelectuals have trouble adapting to military lifestyle, actual combat is a whole different animal in that respect. It is also different from the type of fighting that goes on in typical civilian life.
Other than that, why would you assume that intelectuals wouldn’t be better predisposed to figguring out what they’re supposed to do to stay alive and accomplish the mission? Particularly as they’re more used to thinking than the average guy.