Colorado Technical University

How do people who seem to not have common sense get college degrees and become successful?

I will say these people have discipline and patience. I have met people who do no have basic logic or common sense, but they do have college degrees. How does that work? I did NOT vote Obama. please stop stereotyping people

Public Comments

1. They have mastered the art of completing, whatever they set out to do.
2. It's also very easy to buy a college degree these days--I particularly like the ones that buy their masters, and then look at you with a prideful grin, or the medical doctors that crisscross America in order to find a med school that will take them, and then the parents bore the sh*t out of you about how their kid is a doctor (like we need anymore "nurseless" doctors in this country). College is only about learning what you need to know in order to do a specific job--it has nothing to do with intelligence or common sense, only rote memorization, which is why malpractice insurance is a necessity. Here's a question for you: "How do people who seem to not have common sense get elected into political office?" --this is the way the world works.
3. I don't believe the fact that a college educated person doesn't have basic logic. Studies have shown that the majority of college educated people have higher IQs than those who did not attend college. I agree with you with the fact that some people who have college degrees don't have common sense. There are two kinds of people I could think of: the person who stays all day and night awake to study and has no social relationships, and the person who gets a degree in a non social field of study (i.e. mathematics or chemistry), where they don't have to practice their common sense in everyday life. I have to admit, though, that people lacking common sense are rare, and that there is an innate aspect of it in everybody.
4. I think that it all really depends on the person. Just because one has no or a lack of common sense, does not necessarily mean that person is not an intelligent person. Intelligence can be measured in many different ways. What exactly do you mean by "basic logic" and "common sense" anyway? COMMON SENSE: Common sense basically consists of what people in common would agree on: that which they "sense" (in common) as their common natural understanding. Some people (such as the authors of Merriam-Webster Online) use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that — in their opinion — most people would consider prudent and of sound judgment, without reliance on esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what they see as knowledge held by people "in common". Thus "common sense" (in this view) equates to the knowledge and experience which most people allegedly have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have. BASIC LOGIC: The term "logic" is often used in many different ways. It is sometimes understood broadly as the systematic study of the principles of good reasoning. As such logic is not very different from critical thinking. But sometimes "logic" is understood more narrowly as what we might call "deductive logic". Roughly speaking, deductive logic is mainly about the consistency of statements and beliefs, as well as the validity of arguments. Basic logic can be described like this: "If California is in the USA, then California is not in Europe California is in the USA Therefor, California is not in Europe" There have been many people in history that think outside of this basic logig "box" and those people tend to be the successful type and the incredible thinkers that society has produced for many generations. Most of the highly successful people in life tend, also, to play this eccentric type of role.