Often this extends to denying that more intelligent humans can do and accomplish the things they clearly do and accomplish.
One common version is “intelligence isn’t useful because nerds don’t have social skills”, or (epsilon less stupidly) seeing a negative correlation between coding ability and social skills among the set of people who have at least one power-relevant skill—not aware that they are conditioning on a collider, or that tails come apart.
(Similar to “pitchers are bad hitters”, ignoring that they are only considering people who successfully made the big leagues and are therefore extremely good at at least one of pitching and hitting. Most MLB pitchers would be the best hitter in your amateur league. And then, y’know, there’s Shohei Otani.)
One common version is “intelligence isn’t useful because nerds don’t have social skills”, or (epsilon less stupidly) seeing a negative correlation between coding ability and social skills among the set of people who have at least one power-relevant skill—not aware that they are conditioning on a collider, or that tails come apart.
(Similar to “pitchers are bad hitters”, ignoring that they are only considering people who successfully made the big leagues and are therefore extremely good at at least one of pitching and hitting. Most MLB pitchers would be the best hitter in your amateur league. And then, y’know, there’s Shohei Otani.)