<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:31 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 05/11/2020 23:26, bill w wrote:<br>
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Oh, I don't know. I suspect I may be that great <span><span>:-[</span></span>.<br>
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I don't deny that for certain kinds of thinking (that partially
overlap the kind of thinking that goes on here), I'm almost
certainly above average, but there are many areas where I know I'm
sorely lacking. Mathematical thinking is one of them, as some of you
will know (and it vexes me greatly, because I know (or at least
glimpse) what I'm missing). But there are many other areas. This
group, I'm sure, will over-value some kinds of intelligence, and
under-value or even totally discount others. I'm trying to overcome
that bias, and look at a wide range of areas that could be called
'intelligence', and reckon that, averaged over all of them, I'd come
in at under 50%. I'm not singling myself out, either. I wouldn't be
surprised if some others that read this list will be similar.<br>
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I don't remember who said it, but I take this advice seriously: Hang
out with people who are smarter than you, some of it might rub off.<pre cols="72">Ben Zaiboc</pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hey, how do you think I feel? My highest class in math was algebra I (much higher than that in statistics). I don't follow any of that as I can't and am way too far behind and old to catch up. Henry and I are the top (only) guys in psych (and I for one feel underused by the group in that respect). I have no idea what you mean by 50%. That doesn't translate to IQ or anything I know. But certainly, hang around smart guys. Where the field involved requires no intelligence, like politics, it's a free for all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">And think about this: in fluid intelligence, most of us from over the hill to way over the hill. Anything past 40 is old - even 30 sometimes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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