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Old 11-23-2007, 04:59 PM
FortunaMaximus FortunaMaximus is offline
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Default Re: Average SMP IQ.

I was going to avoid this thread. But intelligence and high IQ scores does not equal capability to succeed. The metrics are too narrow and don't accurately gauge an individual's potential contributions to society. You can lack in quite a few scoring criteria and be quite successful in life.

Autistic savants wouldn't score high overall in a correctly administered test that allowed for a wide range of criteria. Such a test hasn't been developed yet, I don't think, but a person's success should be the barometer in a semi-meritocracy. And there are far more successful people with average IQ and more well-rounded skillsets than there are people with freakish IQs who aren't as balanced overall.

I scored high enough to make a mockery of academics and get anything I wanted from a school administration. These days I tend towards philosophy in-between periods of creative lunacy. I contribute nothing to society or the advancement of general knowledge despite my potential.

Probably useful for SMP averages but nothing more than that.
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