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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (5495)	1/19/2000 8:17:00 AM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Thank you for reinforcing my point! As I stated, IQ is not a measure of education, but is instead a measure of natural intelligence - or more appropriately, a rate of learning. Many genises have trouble with basic concepts, such as arithmatic, tying shoe laces, and spelling. However, they tend to form rapid and automatic grasps of advanced points, such as Relativity. It is extermely common for individuals with high IQ's to fail basic education. You may note from my original post, I basically failed high school. I also failed grade school. "He is an intelligent student, but does not apply himself" was the common statement on my grade cards. I am not a genius, I missed that threshold by 13 points, but I am slightly above average for an American college graduate. Einsteins IQ is estimated to have been over 200, by far not the smartest man to ever live, but one of the top 10,000. Unfortunately, his adolescence was over decades before the development of IQ testing, so we will never know what it actually was, we just know that it was a lot. btw, EE exams must be much different in Europe than the US, because here they are extermely difficult. The vast majority of EE cantidates fail out before their senior years, and graduating with over a 3.0 GPA average in this field is considered spectacular. Or maybe we are just less intelligent over here, after all, we've barely accomplished anything in the last 200 years.