Re: OT: Serious ***

"Wilhelm Kuhlmann" <wilhelmkuhlmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Tad Perry" <tadperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > "Wilhelm Kuhlmann" <wilhelmkuhlmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > > I am not an idiot. I have a 200+ IQ. I am not a racist either.
Are
> > you
> > > > so
> > > > ignorant that you think everyone who uses the word "***" is a
> racist?
> > > > Get a clue, will you? Political correctness is for faggots, wimps,
> and
> > > > pussies like you.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm curious: how does one get an IQ measured at 200? Using the SB or
> > > Weschler scales, 200 is approx. +6 S.D. Do SB or W even give tallies
> > that
> > > high for adults?
> > >
> > > I've taken a few (professional) tests where I've scored above +3 S.D.
> The
> > > testing bodies basically said that "hey, you passed; it's all the same
> > above
> > > +2 S.D.; nobody cares anyways."
> > >
> > > One's achievement in life depends on ambition, health, social skills,
> and
> > > luck as well as intelligence. However, an IQ of +6 S.D. is such an
> > > overwhelming factor that such an intellect would have made a profound
> > impact
> > > on the world.
> >
> > Untrue. Most of these are emotionally unstable manic-depressives. It's
so
> > out-of-bounds as to blur the border between genius and insanity. I think
> > when one is super-smart it's easy to see all the stupidity in the world
> and
> > it can really make one angry. Society itself was built by the average
> > brain-dead idiot after all.
>
> Very perceptive, Tad. When I was a freshman at Harvey Mudd College, my
> parents visited on parent's day and had an interview with the dean. You
> have to realize that Harvey Mudd is an elite science and engineering
school.
> Bascially, everybody who gets admitted has a genius level IQ and college
> board scores at or near 800/800. The dean told my parents that, if they
> wanted to understand what my world was like, they should imagine what
their
> lives would be like if they lived in a world where everyone else was a
> slack-jawed idiot.
>
> That was the first time I had heard the expression "slack-jawed idiot",
and
> it has remained one of my favorites ever since. Look, I don't claim to be
> the smartest person in the world, but I do know I am in a very elite
> minority, a small fraction of 1% for sure. Surely you understand when I
do
> claim to be the smartest person in the world that I am engaging in uber
> troll hyperbole.
>
> It drives me absolutely nuts to see incompetent idiots like George Bush
> running the country. It also drives me nuts to see obviously brilliant
and
> competent people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Noam Chomsky
slimed
> and maligned by idiotic gutter scum like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann
> Coulter, and their running dogs on RGP like Pickle, Mo Ron Charles, FL
> Turbo, and company.
>
> It drives me nuts to be able to see that there are obvious, doable
solutions
> to world problems like poverty, energy, and terrorism, but that these
> solutions are blocked by a political ideology in which the short-term
> interests of the oil companies, military contractors, and the wealthy
elite
> take precedence over the long-term welfare of the human race and the
planet.
>
> I take comfort in the fact that a Day of Judgement is coming, when all the
> people who subscribe to a political ideology of personal selfishness as
the
> supreme principle, and indifference to the welfare of others as the
> manifestation of that principle, are in for a big surprise, especially
those
> who call themselves Christians, while living their lives in direct
> contradiction to the teachings of Jesus.

You and me both on all those points. (I always said we share more opinions
than might be clear from the outside looking in.)

I don't know where I fall IQ-wise although I do score 140 on those 140-max
type tests. I've never taken one of the more comprehensive types, but now
see that you indeed have.

What you and I have is called omniscience. Once you're omniscient an IQ
score is a sort of moot point. I think one main point of difference between
you and I is that I learned to purposely miss test questions at a fairly
early age as I didn't like calling attention to myself. (Another good tactic
is to go really slow, getting everything right, but just leave the last 2 or
3 blank.)

tvp


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