Hi KG,
Ooooo, you've got me thinking here !!
I'm not too sure that I've really questioned anyone's "intelligence". I've
always measured someone's intelligence by:
1. How quickly the can learn and absorb new information
2. How much they know and appreciate the work of David Bowie
A quick check of the Oxford Dictionary describes the word intelligence as
"mental ability to learn and understand things" (although interestingly,
there's no mention of DB).
I guess the issue I have is that if intelligent people are told and feed
incorrect information (and Don's article has it's share of incorrect
information) then fundamentally it's one's "knowledge" that I begin
questioning. Unfortunately, I believe there are a lot of intelligent people
in the Oracle community who have a questionable knowledge of Oracle (or
aspects of Oracle) as a direct result of the poor quality of information
that people absorb (be it books, training courses, web-articles, etc..). And
undoubtedly many of these people that write substandard materials in turn
have picked up flawed knowledge due to the quality of their readings,
education and lack of proper research.
As I mentioned "Knowledge is the key that unlocks the door of doubt". If you
have no doubts about something, it by definition becomes simple !!
Unfortunately, if you're presented with the wrong information, you get
access to the wrong key ;)
Cheers
Richard
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> Richard:
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> I think that is the simple way of questioning other person's capacity.
>
> Remember this statment (borrowed from some one !!)
>
> "If you are telling something is simple,
> you are questioning the other person's intelligence !!'
>
>
> KG
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