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Who is smarter

Someone with extremely deep knowledge in a single, very narrow field
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Someone with solid knowledge in a variety of fields
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>>8190419
The one that is smarter is the one that is smarter. What you know does not directly correlate with how smart you are
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>>8190419

the one who shitposts the most on /sci/
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>>8190419
The one who is smarter, is the one who can apply knowledge.
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>>8190419
intellegence != knowledge != wisdom
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>>8190421
>>8190427
>>8190431
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One with variaty. There's alot less to know about a very narrow field than everything. Plus, very few people care about how deep your knowledge is
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>>8190419

Are you talking about foxes and hedgehogs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox

If so, variety (the fox) tends to make better predictions of uncertain future events as >>8190449 said.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7959.html
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>>8190419
Jack of all trades and master of none here, sometimes I feel like I fucked up.
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They are both smarter than each other and dumber than each other at the same time. They exist in a quantum state until you define the properly define the word "smarter" and collapse the wave function.
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>>8190421
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>>8190419

A rapper.

>the entire universe is math
>all math is rap music
>rappers know all the secrets of rap
>rappers know everything about everything
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