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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}} | ||
At first blush this seems rather appealing. Only when you reflect on the downward spiral into oblivion it incites, does its true horror becomes plain., we quickly found this to be distressing it might seem at first blush, we find this, if true, to reveal a distressing fact about the world, although it does explain a few things. | |||
Firstly, and obviously, 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. | 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. | 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. | ||
It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | ||