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This is a brilliant essay. However, I do think this is a poor definition of "smart":
It could be that the scientists are simply smarter; most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. It would be a valuable thing if all high school students could take a critical thinking course. It's one thing to identify these things, but to have a society versed in them is a whole other issue. I suppose that's one problem I have with the French literature example: If you have a PhD in French literature, you understand the effects of culture throughout history, and you are very well versed in the attempts of the human psyche to identify and deal with What You Can't Say.