isn't that exactly what i said? Undergraduate education measures your ability to stick to a program or task for four to six years. So there's not much a Bachelors degree tells us about intelligence. However, University faculty is staffed not by undergraduates, but by doctorate holders. Thus, whatever we decide to say about DS's statement "most college professors are pseudo intellectuals" had better be true about doctorate holders.
There is plenty college can tell us. The students are out on their own, they get fed a bunch of bullshit (mostly, not all) to the point that they're brainwashed one way or the other, and they continue on that path getting their BS/BA. Once they get that, their arrogance expands and they go for a higher learning degree, while their ego continues to be inflated as their sense of entitlement balloons. This is just a generalization though and it obviously does not apply to everyone, just those with liberal arts degrees.
Now, if we examine the set of people who are doctorate holders, I submit that it will not be one populated by idiots.
Define idiots? I maintain you can have a higher degree and still be a clueless fart. A high school classmate of mine got his law degree in California, while his weak mind got brainwashed by California politics, and his response to my question of "Why do you like Obama so much" was a carefully rehearsed "Oh you just don't like Obama because you're racist!" See? He has a law degree which is not at ALL easy to do, yet he's still a moron. Was Ben Bernanke smart just because he was FED chairman? Is Nancy Pelosi smart? I guess it would come down to book smarts vs. street smarts and common sense.
Pseudo intellectuals are insecure people who want others to know that they can engage in mental masturbation and recite a bunch of meaningless statistics, while attempting to push their brainwashing on others. They can't hold ground in any form of intellectual debates because they only hang around their kind and are not used to disagreement, nor conflict. RH you aren't a pseudo intellectual. At times Nai pisses me off when he nitpicks with his corrections but he's really reduced that nonsense over the years.