One often meets people who think (and even say) they are not terribly attractive but almost never people who think they are not too smart. In reality the opposite is usually the case. One should expect this in a culture that defines “smartness” as accumulation of knowledge. So you got people who are plain stupid, then people who confuse being “informed” with being smart, plus the nerds, plus the aspergers “geniuses”. Not many people have the rigor and the catalysis of a misfortune to probe and to treat the knowledge as a subtraction rather than an addition. They are far and few.
Further reading:People who think they are not too smart
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