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What's more important? Having a high I.Q. or what you do with it, how you use it? Why?

Posted - October 10, 2017

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  • 46117
    Oh good. This is an easy one.

    What you do with it.  Answer B.
      October 10, 2017 8:19 AM MDT
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  • 113301
     ((hugs)) Yep. Give a cigar to the little lady! Thank you for your reply Shar.
      October 10, 2017 9:12 AM MDT
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  • On logic,
    you'd have to have the high IQ in the first place
    before you could do anything with it -
    so it has to be the most important -
    but then, if its not used,
    it has no importance whatsoever.

    Have chatted with people high up in mensa
    who've told me that having the IQ
    does not determine the choices people make.
    Many live very modest lives;
    they don't become or do anything special with their talents.
      October 10, 2017 8:22 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    Your argument is circular.and begs the original question.
      October 10, 2017 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 46117


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    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at October 10, 2017 9:54 AM MDT
      October 10, 2017 8:59 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    That hurts my ears and is totally incomprehensible. I am an idiot.
      October 10, 2017 9:55 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    That's the point.  Not that you're an idiot.  That circular arguments make no sense. 

    They were a group of total burnouts from the 60's   They made no sense at all.
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      October 10, 2017 11:07 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    I know some people who aren't very bright but are very hard workers and are productive, helpful members of society. So having a high IQ doesn't automatically make someone more worthy or whatever, especially if they just sit around bragging about their IQ but don't do anything with it.
      October 10, 2017 8:47 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    I agree. Trump  wants an I Q faceoff with Tillerson. I  thought "what a sillybilly he is". Thank you for your reply Patch! :)
      October 10, 2017 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    Ya just had to bring trump up. Sheesh.
      October 10, 2017 9:56 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    I stated a fact. Then I stated an opinion. I wasn't talking to you. You entered a conversation uninvited because you didn't like what I said to Patch.  Yes. I brought up Trump. I shall so do again. It is who I am. I thought you knew. My mistake.
      October 10, 2017 10:22 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    Twas meant to be humorous.
      October 10, 2017 10:24 AM MDT
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  • 2500
    No, no you didn't. You started out with a question, then you followed that with another question, and then followed that second question with yet a third question. But ALL those questions would be considered th be "leading the witness" back to Trump.
      October 10, 2017 3:41 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    I dislike the term IQ. It is just a number derived from a series of tests. I prefer to just use the word intelligence. I feel it varies from person to person, interest, and chosen vocation. Example: The guys downstairs rebuilding my kitchen right now are geniuses and I am an idiot. I can give then a lesson in organic chemistry and the table will turn. Sometimes when I am here, some folks will talk about quotes from authors I have never heard of and have no interest in. An uncaring idiot. I think you get the point.
      October 10, 2017 9:21 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for your reply. I do not get your point so  you thought wrong. Here is what I KNOW FOR SURE. EVERYONE is excellent at some things, mediocre at some things and lousy at some things. They are just different things. Which means WE ARE ALL AVERAGE so those who brag about being a Mensa member and their high IQ 's show their stupidity in my opinion. I don't know if you get my point but here it is..I am a non-liker of braggarts. Always have been, am now and always will be. I think they show their stupidity because real intelligence doesn't have to be advertised. Intelligent people do not have to blow their own horns. Others do it for them. It just is. People know when they are talking to someone who is smart and they also know when they are talking to some who is all show no know or go. That I know for sure. Thank you for your reply. This post was edited by RosieG at October 10, 2017 10:37 AM MDT
      October 10, 2017 10:29 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    I agree with you about braggarts.
      October 10, 2017 10:38 AM MDT
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  • 2500
    Remember, the world is run by the "C" students. 

    And why is that IQ test so important to you? IQ tests were specifically dreamt up to show that black people weren't as smart as white people. They were, and continue to be VERY culturally/racially biased. What does that say about the people that do your thinking for you? This post was edited by Salt and Red Pepper at October 10, 2017 10:25 AM MDT
      October 10, 2017 9:36 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    Indeed, you are correct about the original reason for the test.
      October 10, 2017 10:26 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    I took the skid row IQ test and I totally failed. Not very adept at scamming people. 
      October 10, 2017 11:23 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    You need to read this.

      October 10, 2017 12:23 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ah yeah..
      October 10, 2017 2:37 PM MDT
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