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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (171972)10/5/2005 10:18:52 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Ah the power of presumptions and stereotyping! It seems that many assumed I was saying having high IQ precludes being a loving decent person. In fact I was making a point of relative values that if the choice was between loving decent people of average IQ (typically defined as 80-110) and arrogant self absorbed upper 2% of the population, I'd choose the former. Of course if I can have it all, I'd go for it. This is like I saying, "between money and good health I'd choose health" and you countering back "but what about having both or being poor and sick".

Now on a practical matter and based on personal experience, loving decent people with high IQ seem to find more engaging activities and more rewarding social life than to join MENSA. On the other hand, those who are rated as the being in the upper 2% of IQ tests (a very narrow measure of intelligence) but have little else to offer and develop a superiority complex, seem to gravitate towards MENSA gatherings.

This is a correlation and not a causality.
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