Now, mountainclimbr, there ya go, generalizing from not much data.
Lessee: There are some 120 million people involved with gun ownership in the U.S. The NRA has some 3+ million members.
Mensa is open to the top 2% of IQs, or in the U.S. some six million people. Yet, the membership is around 30,000 or so.
Seems to me that one could make nasty generalizations about the NRA, just as easily as about Mensans.
And I just really do have difficulty seeing myself as any sort of social reject.
Heck, I might generalize that people judge others by themselves!
Halfway serious but of no particular importance: My mother was an assoc. prof. in the UT Psych Dept when the folks at Stanford were working up the Binet IQ Test. This was cooperative, nationwide effort as I understand the deal. My junior high school provided a bunch of the guinea pigs. I guess this was around 1946.
Mostly because of the time factor, I blew out the curve. A bunch of grad students had to go back and re-do a bunch of stuff. I got griped at for years on account of my embarrassing her. The ancient, "My son did WHAT?" Hey, I couldn't help it if the test was easy!
What I gather about it all, basically, is that IQ is best regarded as a capability for learning. It has zilch to do with common sense, practicality or wisdom. And it sure doesn't mean that bright folks will actually learn.
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