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To: colorado tanker
If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

Not if your own IQ is above 100 and you have any real world (non-academia) experience.

They can shuffle papers and attend meetings, but if you assume they can be trusted with physical objects larger than a desktop computer or perhaps an automobile, you are walking on thin ice.

IQ, "education" and competence are not necessarily related. I have portions of all three, in varying quantities. Whatever scores I have achieved on SAT, military GCT or other "intelligence" tests have made me neither wise nor "rich".

What little competence I may have demonstrated has come via a mix of training, study and experience. As Moishe Rosen once said:

"Experience is the best teacher.
But, if you can accept it second hand
the "tuition" is less!"

27 posted on 08/09/2013 3:36:07 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: BwanaNdege

91 posted on 08/10/2013 5:48:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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