True enough, and in my experience with such tests, people are too often inattentive, distracted, and unbalanced. The first test I took was not taken very seriously by most of us in the class, and results were miserable. The next time, I had read up on IQ tests and came out with a better score.
Yea… coz if One enters into anything ill-prepared, One is setting themselves up for a fail.
…of course, there can be other factors at play here, but those are circumstantial and so cannot always be helped or foreseen.
There can be misunderstandings about what you think you know. But what is actually knowable is true regardless of those misunderstandings, even in the lack of evidence and good reasons. But if what we think we know is actually true, and yet our actions do not reflect what we think we know, are we not the most foolish of fools?
Or as Forrest Gump‘s mama says, “Stupid is as stupid does.“
I’m not sure one can choose one and not have the other. Especially if we are including things like tacit knowledge and application of knowledge as knowledge. If you know how to apply knowledge, which is a kind of knowledge then you likely have a good way of thinking. If you have a good way of thinking then you likely have knowledge. If you have a great way of thinking but no knowledge then there’s something wrong or you are a small child. If you have incredible knowledge but lack a good way of thinking…I’m not even sure what that means. You know a lot of facts, trivia, you can list the Kings of England?
Are you saying you’re older than God because Jesus died younger than you are now? He has actual evidence that he is God. What evidence do you have?
Are you saying you are Jesus’ teacher because every one of us is made in the image of God? Do you think you have nothing to learn from me? Oh you gonna learn.
This comes up in The Republic because someone who actually uses a tool knows how it works better than the person who MERELY conceives/builds it. So that’s kind of like saying that someone who knows the golden rule but doesn’t do it doesn’t know anything about it compared to the one who actually lives it… which is what Kierkegaard (& Jesus… & Plato… & … & … & … ) was on about.
It’s a good thing you can’t (can) see yourself through other people’s eyes because you’re totally defeating (on purpose) the exact thing you’re trying to do.