I think there is a bad misconception in the community at large that 'big, proper four wheel drive vehicles' can go anywhere and everywhere, even with a total dickhead at the wheel ...
True. We in this forum have witnessed many instances stuck or broken real 4WDs because of that misconception.
However, one can be very smart/clever without being particularly intelligent ...
Intelligence doesn't mean you're good at everything. In fact, the more intelligent you are, the less likely you are to think you're very good at anything.
Having lots of training doesn't make one smart/clever is what I'm saying. Although, to the untrained I guess it might make one look smart...
I think the words we're after are
knowledge vs
intelligence. Knowledge can be gained through experience, training and reading in school, university, life, work, etc. One can have so much knowledge with something but what he/she does with such is intelligence.
My field, which deals with the earth's crust and the scale of millions of years, has examples of the question on knowledge vs intelligence. A good one is when I was exploring for coal as a contractor and the client suddenly hired a well-educated and highly-trained girl to manage the project. She told me she was in the coal industry
because she wanted country/host rocks to be flat and I thought that she was in the wrong field. Anyway, the mine was on an extremely mild
anticline and she was already throwing tantrums because she was having a hard time figuring out the relatively simple 3D resource model made for her. Another example is when, on another mine, the bosses/owners and engineers
wanted to have the most profit possible to the point that they wanted to extract coal from already-sealed 50's and 70's old mine workings which is a no-no because of methane build up. Coal releases methane naturally and everyone in the industry knows that but those profit-desperate ones still drilled on the old mine workings. There was explosion in the first borehole and they had to close the mine. So, yes, I think we're looking at
knowledge vs
intelligence.
It is a truly humbling field. The time scale itself makes humanity feel like it's just a flash in the vast universe. We worry so much because we are relatively small and short-lived. Mama Earth has been around for 4.54 billion years already and imagine how much we disrespect her even though what we are doing as humans resource-wise won't matter that much to her.
Exactly. Except that you can dig in all four wheels to get really well and truly bogged ...
Many city boys exhibit this phenomenon with their 4WD pickups with either Chinese all-terrains on 20" wheels or BFGs at 45PSI.
thenewdaily.com.au
.