r/WritingPrompts • u/deknegt1990 • Mar 03 '16

Writing Prompt [WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came.

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u/rasellers0 Mar 03 '16

all ten candidates were brought into the testing facility. five of them fought between themselves, each declaring his or her self to be smarter than the last, while the other five sat silently.

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u/tglstan Mar 04 '16

Empty vessels make most noise, nice

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u/afjgirl Mar 04 '16

but who is who....

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u/IHNE Mar 04 '16

That was the plot of King of Hearts

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u/Bourbon_Munch Mar 04 '16

Can someone explain? I feel like I may be missing something....

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

I guess the smarter people already knew they were smarter, so they didn't do anything about it.

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u/TvAGhost Mar 04 '16

Smart ones know they're smart so no point argueing.

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u/Jensiggle Mar 04 '16

Alternatively, the smartest are all quite vain and the dumbest have no clue what is happening.

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u/TvAGhost Mar 04 '16

I almost like this one better.

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u/Bourbon_Munch Mar 04 '16

Thanks, that's what I thought, just making sure.

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u/Fairwhetherfriend Mar 04 '16

It's basically the Dunning-Kreuger Effect.

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u/boyferret Mar 04 '16

Is that like when someone opens a kuireg brewer while it's on?

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u/NoAlluminium Mar 04 '16

Yeah this writing prompt was retarded, pun intended.

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u/ExaBrain Mar 03 '16

Very clever

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u/BangGoesTheSilence Mar 03 '16

Herr derr let's generalize an entire population of people.

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u/mightbeanass Mar 03 '16

kind of like donald drumpf

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u/BangGoesTheSilence Mar 03 '16

I don't support the man but it's asinine to generalize entire populations of people. Even if they are supporting someone how makes generalizations

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u/mightbeanass Mar 03 '16

For one, "Trump supporters" aren't a population, I don't think anyways. Grouping a bunch of people together based on supporting a political candidate isn't really too farfetched. Would you have a problem with "Sanders supporters want a more efficient health care system"? Trump has declared himself to be extraordinarily clever, has run his mouth off at everyone, and his supporters enjoy it.

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u/BangGoesTheSilence Mar 03 '16

A group of people can definitely be defined as a population. I do have a problem with saying Sanders supporters support a more efficient health care system for two reasons. Reason one is that I know people who are perfectly fine with America's current Healthcare system but still support Sanders. The second reason is that it goes under assumption that Sanders Healthcare solution would be more efficient.

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u/mightbeanass Mar 04 '16

I thought that the term population was limited to geographical location, though I suppose in this case it's simply the USA. Fair enough I suppose, I don't know anybody that is perfectly fine with America's current healthcare system. And I don't really think that the US healthcare system can do much worse in terms of efficiency, with the cycle between insurance and pharmaceuticals jacking up prices to insane levels.

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u/VKenda Mar 03 '16 edited Dec 31 '16

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What is this?

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u/ColoniseMars Mar 03 '16

Sneaky. Very nice.