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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (55535)	6/7/2009 8:14:21 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

>> I'm not talkin' the street smarts and wisdom of an uneducated person. I totally go along with that. I'm talkin' low IQ, where even schooling doesn't help, cuz, if you want to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, you have to start with a silk sow.<, I disagree-lol. First, there are many types of intelligence e.g. math intelligence, literary intelligence, perception intelligence artistic intelligence, etc. Of all my close friends the most succesful (academically, socially, humor, social, etc) was a guy who could not get through a basic statistics course, but wrote his first novel at 21 and got a PHD for it (Hunters of the Northern Forest) and also wrote a book compared ot thoreau's Walden pond "the Island within. My daughter was assigned the book when she was at Berkeley. He can teach at any university in the world and was the alpha dog of all of us and most of us had advanced degrees of one form or anther. He was the true genius of all of us becasue he could do ore and see better, yet we used to guess his IQ was probably under 100. C student in high school. He also had his pick of the women. Science also thinks now that an IQ can be increased with lots of intellectual use. Neurons are constantly being produced by the brain, but if there is inadequater stimulation between 7 and 14 days the neurons disappear otherwise they hook inot the neural learning network. Scientific American 2009. But to use classic IQ, the Stanford Benit has a standard deviation of 14. So one SD below the mean is 86. so 86% of the people have an IQ above 86. That is plenty smart enough to get through college.