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Originally posted by Hooper@May 23 2003, 02:19 PM
this seems a bit odd.
a 100 IQ score is by definition the point at which 50% of the people are higher and 50% are lower.
I didnt really take it.... so that means that everybody here is not just average, but stunningly brilliant. Thats great.... but i think unlikely.
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I believe it....
Key point in marketing is to always recognize that 100 is the average iq... which always means that half your audience is below average intelligence...
Thus far (with the exception of a few at GFY) most of the folks I have met in this industry have struck me as very intelligent.....
Intelligence is a double edged sword... There was a study published a while back (I will see if I can find references to it) that showed most successful, really rich folk (Your Donald Trumps and the like) were NOT super intelligent or bright.... The more intelligent you are, tyhe more likely you are to question your own decisions, try new methodologies, etc. This does not necessarilly add up to success... The more successful folk tend to take a tried and true methodology and work it to the max....IQ does not reflect how hard you work... It merely measures your ability to learn....
There have been several genius level and above folks in my ancestry, all of them succumbed to various forms of nervous breakdowns, addictions and other assorted neuroses... While none of them were exactly living in the gutter, none of them made it to rich.....