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People who use these 7 phrases in conversation have a lower IQ than they think, according to psychology

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The smartest person in my graduate seminar never spoke above a whisper. While the rest of us performed intellectual peacocking—dropping references to Foucault, using “paradigmatic” in casual conversation—she asked simple questions that revealed the gaps in our elaborate arguments. “What do you mean by that?” she’d say, and watch our carefully constructed theoretical frameworks collapse … Continue reading "People who use these 7 phrases in conversation have a lower IQ than they think, according to psychology"