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To: RavenLooneyToon
IQ (and intelligence, generally-speaking) is a meaningless metric. In one sense it allows a person to claim to possess some special clairvoyant insight (which he typically does not) while also depriving him of the humility to acknowledge that he cannot recognize reality through either experience or simple observation.

I know several "brilliant" people who voted twice for Obama. Idiots.

Ted Bundy was by all accounts brilliant. Sociopathic serial killer.

No offense intended, but you are not special. We will all suffer.

I realize The Big Bang Theory is a sit-com, but I am reminded of the episode of Dr. Sheldon Cooper indicating his noted brilliance followed by the question, "Does anyone know how to open the toolbox?"

33 posted on 11/07/2012 1:03:19 PM PST by Squeako (The radicals are the wolves. The moderates are the wolves in sheep's clothing.)
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To: Squeako
I readily admit and posted that I am an idiot. I did not mean to infer I had any super ability.
The qualifier references a compare point to base an observation against the premise of a test containing one hundred questions. It meant no more and no less. I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else.
36 posted on 11/07/2012 1:10:45 PM PST by RavenLooneyToon (Tail gunner Joe was right.)
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