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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as less intelligent" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly when comparing intelligence levels, as "less" should not be used with "as" in this context.
Example: "He is not as intelligent as his brother."
Alternatives: "not as smart" or "less clever."
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Moreover, the authors themselves may be perceived as less intelligent, creative, hardworking or trustworthy.
For instance, she found that those with Mexican or Greek accents were perceived as less intelligent or professional than those who speak standard US English.
A recent Tufts study found that individuals with the "mask of Parkinson's" were perceived as less intelligent, socially savvy and trustworthy than other patients.
Separately, 9percentt of whites rated blacks as less intelligent, the same as in 2014 but about half as many as said the same in 2000.
In this case, 26percentt of white Republicans rated African Americans as less intelligent, compared to 18percentt of white Democrats.
Yet when they were primed with an example of the trait — the word "Einstein" — they tended to make a comparison, judging the story character as less intelligent.
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We worried about his reputation for abrasiveness, for failing to listen to people he regarded as less well-informed or intelligent than himself.
Savannah elephants are known to perceive risk and avoid exposure to it [25], chimpanzees alter their behaviour depending on their risk assessment of forest roads [26], as do less intelligent species such as moose [27].
When Stanovich and others have tested volunteers' reasoning ability, they found that the most intelligent were just as miserly and irrational as the less intelligent.
As a child, he observed that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on scripted television; to avoid that stereotype, he taught himself to imitate the speech of American news anchors.
Reacting logically to a culture that views us as inherently less intelligent and authoritative, women are less likely to see ourselves as adequately qualified to comment or pontificate.
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