what do you define as street smart and book smart

[NorCalNinja]

well the one i talked about was definitely extrovert...

but tell me why am wrong?

You described a sociopath not a psychopath.

Almost every single school shooter has been en extreme introvert with little to no friends.

Youre just completely wrong.

 

[Rusk]

You described a sociopath not a psychopath.

Almost every single school shooter has been en extreme introvert with little to no friends.

Youre just completely wrong.

its a same condition but with different causes

http://suite101.com/article/psychopathy-sociopathy-or-apd-a31621

Dr. Robert Hare, one of the leading experts in the study of psychopathy, suggests that the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy may primarily reflect how the person using these terms views the factors contributing to the antisocial disorder.

More apt to view antisocial behavior as arising from social conflicts, sociologists typically prefer the term sociopath. Whereas, psychologists use the term psychopathy to describe a psychological disorder that is the product of a combination of psychological, biological, genetic and environmental factors (Hare 1999).

Is Psychopathy 'Nature'?

In agreement with Hare

 

[John Stockton]

Street Smart: Not walking around in the ghetto with your hands in your pockets, listening to your iphone, and staring at the ground. Knowing when to exit a situation before it escalates. Being able to recognize when someone is trying to con you. Knowing how to defend yourself. Knowing when to fight and when to run.
Book Smart: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations. Being ill at quantum mechanics. Stuff like that.

 

[therealdope]

Reading this thread made me google the def'n of "street smarts". Check it out.

It's funny because when I hear "street smarts" I immediately associate it with scam or crime.

 

[CutStryker]

Street Smarts are the things that you learn in the street, drug dealing, prostitution, robberies etc.. blue collar crimes. Also, being able to recognize traps and scenarios associated with street entanglements (violence etc) Book smarts would be those things you learn in college and school and then ultimately use them for a career.

That's the way I see it

 

[EJAXXX]

When I think streetsmarts, I think of somebody who is good at assessing things on the fly. Quickly understanding intentions, interpreting body language and voices, somebody who knows when shit is about to go down before other people do. They are very comfortable in situations where the booksmart guy is thinking "hey this isn't in the manual".

That's pretty much how I feel, and just because you're street smart doesn't mean you're out there smoking crack....it means you should be selling it.

 

[Lost Limb**]

Book smart - the ability to do well academically.

Street Smart - a combination of common sense, experience and craftiness?

 

[therealdope]

That's pretty much how I feel, and just because you're street smart doesn't mean you're out there smoking crack....it means you should be selling it.

Book smart - the ability to do well academically.

Street Smart - a combination of common sense, experience and craftiness?

Like I said: Street Smarts means preparing a scam or crime, or defending against one.

 

[SevenSamurai]

It's not innate - it's entirely learnt, but otherwise I agree.

hard to say really, some people have a filter in their brain for those types of smarts -one can only guess if they were predispositioned for that talent.

 

[SevenSamurai]

innate or fostered situational awareness is just code for people who are dumb to stroke their fragile ego. /sarcasm

they're living on the streets man, let them have their cake brosef:icon_chee

 

[Benoco]

Book smart= smart, generally speaking, though possibly lacking common sense or social skills.

Street Smart= what stupid people who failed at school, tests, profession, and any other objective measurement of intelligence like to tell themselves they possess- and try to convince others- so that they don't have acknowledge the truth: they're just stupid.

More succinctly put.

Not really.

Book smart means you know things.

Street smart means you know people.

This is pretty much it imo. Street smart is being able to judge people and situations well.

 

[ValeTudo95]

hard to say really, some people have a filter in their brain for those types of smarts -one can only guess if they were predispositioned for that talent.

I suppose you're right, things are rarely ever entirely due to one or the other.

 

[Smurfenstein]

This is one of the best answers to this question I've ever come across.

I'd add/clarify that part of "street smarts" or "common sense" is a combination of experience and value set.

My department didn't require a college degree. A GED was just fine. Some of the old-timers definitely had the attitude that having less formal education meant that they automatically had better judgement in practical things. Like a person couldn't possibly hold both things in one brain.

Case: I was brand new and we had a training day. There would be classroom time but also live grappling at our gym. In both portions we were to be in uniform. I got dressed and left my duty belt and weapon in my locker. "Whoa kid, where's your gun?" "Locked up. We have grappling." "What if something goes down and you don't have your gun?" "I can have my pick of any of yours, seeing as I'm the only one wearing a vest." Some of them dismissed me with a grumble. Some acknowledged my point. I'll let you guess which ones spent their days parked in a corner somewhere with a newspaper and which ones led specialized units and became captains to top of distinguished careers.

What if they shot you in the leg or dick?

 

[mister who]

Street smarts:

Forging documents/creating fake identities, cooking up meth, body disposal, evidence staging, etc.

Basically things you don't need to know if you want to live and operate within normal society.