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To: SusieQ who wrote (33742)	4/5/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Why do you need to waste time writing? To communicate. If you do not speak you can do a lot of imagining- which is what you have obviously been doing. Please do not allow me to disturb you.

To: SusieQ who wrote (33742)	4/5/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Susie, I think the problem is that there was a perhaps unintentional snobbishness in your statement about preferring men with a specific IQ score, and X was kinda calling you on it. For instance, you failed to say on what test you required this IQ. Many standard tests don't even measure beyond 150. MENSA accepts many tests, but use a percentage requirement- the top 2% I think-- rather than an arbitrary number; you may want to consider this approach to increase your pool of candidates. Otherwise, you are limiting yourself dreadfully as so few can measure up to your requirement! Vos Savant, who allegedly scored the highest ever (I think it was originally scored as a 228), has an IQ of about 190 by today's scoring. ANd of course, you need to get the test date score. Over the past twenty years, test scores have been depressed drastically. DIfferent editions of the tests also can produce different results. For instance, on the Stanford-Binet, an individual scoring 182 on Form L-M also scored 127 on the 4th edition of the same. A 160 on the SB in 1960 was only worth 129 on the WISC. PArt of the problem is that IQs are plotted on a normal bell curve and the extremes have to be extrapolated as the normative samples don't provide enough data. The experts dislike doing this, so they tended to stop at 150. I don't think I've ever asked a man his IQ in my life. And if someone asked me mine, I would quickly extract myself from that conversation! One of the lessons I consider very important for my children to learn is that everyone brings something to the table and that they should never judge a person's value by any one criterion.