Re: Herd instincts?

On Nov 17, 4:39 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:56:44 -0800, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."

<p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]



You might be getting cause and effect mixed up with the
liberal/progressive tendencies. Perhaps it is the property of having a
broad education that makes one seem like a 'liberal'.

Naaaah! It's part of the mental defectiveness that thinks a label
(PhD) infuses intelligence.

Whereas Jim represents the kind of mental deficiency that fails to see
that it is kind of difficult to do the work required to get a Ph.D.
without having a fair measure of intelligence to start with - IQ tests
on people who have managed to get a Ph.D. suggest that they are pretty
much all drawn from that tail of the population with IQ's of 115 or
higher. Of course, once you've got over that threshold, your IQ-score
doesn't correlate to any significant extent with your subsequent
success.

Jim was once intelligent enough to qualify for membeship of Mensa,
which does go to show that the intelligence defined by IQ tests is a
rather narrowly applicable skill.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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