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{{a|maxim|[[File:wrongroom.png|450px|center|It’s not you. It’s me.]]}}{{shitmaxim|If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room}} | {{a|maxim|[[File:wrongroom.png|450px|center|It’s not you. It’s me.]]}}{{shitmaxim|If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room}} | ||
This is quite bad news for clever people, but | This is quite bad news for clever people, but hardly better for the great, face-slapping mediocrity, for it will make our lives harder too. But at least it explains why everyone seems so confused: ''at least'' one person in every room is in the wrong place. | ||
And most likely more: after all, Nobel laureates have no monopoly on room dysphoria: to the contrary, the stupider you are, the more likely you are to be in the wrong room. | |||
This news will also be disappointing for teachers, implying as it does that ''they are all constantly in the wrong room'': either by being ''too'' smart — per [[Mayer’s Law]] — or not being smart ''enough'', it being a founding proposition that one should not educate people who are already cleverer than you are. for what kind of teacher tries to teach people who are cleverer ergo ''is'' in the wrong room, or | |||
:(ii) is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case what is she doing teaching these people in the first place? | :(ii) is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case what is she doing teaching these people in the first place? | ||