Common sense is not uncommon. It’s just not useful. “It’s common sense! Anyone can see that it should be done this way!” If anyone can see it, they already did, and it was tried and did not work in the infancy of the subject matter. If you are truly able to approach a field with no experience and make some “common sense” improvements that people with tens of thousands of hours of experience cannot, then it is not common sense and you are a genius. But let’s be real, that isn’t going to be anyone who talks about having common sense.
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9/10 common sense is usually the right answer. Not everyone has it. Call center experience for multiple different fields can easily prove that. Not everyone thinks of it and tries it out first.
I really don’t believe the dunning Kruger curve is anything more than a confidence curve with a few outliers. It is not built on intelligence but on performance which is built on level of caring, compliance along with other factors in daily life. This is the same metric we use to gauge intelligence in animals which is the weirdest metric to me to measure. Why anyone would believe this study has never read a German scientist or philosopher from pre war Germany. Nietzsche who is one of the smartest philosophers ever would literally boast in his writing how amazing and how much smarter he was than everyone at the time. Freud, Jung and their successors would have trouble with this but they were on a lot of drugs.
The issue here is that everyone has common sense but not everyone will use it, instead making out a huge complicated problem about something that’s easily solved with… common sense.
When people say “common sense” they basically mean “I want to prove this is true but I don’t know how to make an argument for it so I’ll say this buzzword I think makes things sound true.”
Idk, it depends on the subject, but I do think it’s possible for institutions to get bloated and over-intellectualize problems and get away from “common sense” solutions. All common sense is is being able to quickly see what the most likely problem/solution is and just going with that. Sometimes big institutions get away from that and it makes sense to call them out for it
Normally people will cite “common sense” with things like repairing cars and then slowly they reveal they spent tens of thousands kitting out a car garage or something. They are low key obsessed with the subject matter or have incredibly niche knowledge they assume everyone has.
I usually take “common sense” as short hand for “I didn’t want to look this up”
A lot of smart people aren’t smart in different scenarios
Lifting with your legs and not your back is a common sense thing to know.
Not touching a hot stove is a common sense thing to know.
Putting the toilet seat down after you’re done using it is a common sense thing to know.
Shit you can get a bachelor’s degree for are not.
Knowing things you had to learn to survive is not stupid. Its surviving.
People act smart that can’t change a tire are fine if they can afford a tow or mechanic. People that have no means and no useful skills to speak of are dead weight when it matters.
Some kid with a degree in 17th century French Literature can’t cook a microwave burrito telling the internet there is no common sense.