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To: koan who wrote (213093)	12/30/2012 2:06:42 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541747

To your point - there was just an article that math success was more about studying hard than IQ. IQ is only one measure of intelligence BUT all the people that I've known that have had the most impact had a high IQ PLUS a number of other skills, some technical, some logistical, some planning and some social. I've met people that were off the charts as far as IQ but they were effectively retarded when it came to implementation. Really good chess players are often on this autistic continuum - they have focus. It is not that they aren't smart - they are - but they will be saddled by other issues - gruffness, rudeness, arrogance or ego. Again, your experience sounds exceptional - and it would be a major invasion of your privacy for me to confirm it. However, most people coming out of the urban core social experience are not equipped linguistically, intellectually or socially to succeed, with or without junior college as a bridge. And we know that early deprivation makes for a lifelong intellectual liability. It is the intellectual equivalent of the Chinese' binding of feet. That is the root cause of failure - poor family structure, limited vocabulary / reading skills and a lack of respect for the book-learning process.