travellers

[difflock]

2 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

 

Simple instruction seems difficult for some folk. He said you should end a reasoned argument with "knobhead", not carry on a conversation starting with "knobhead". Remind us why you didn't complete your engineering degree.

 

Sometimes its best to admit you ain't the sharpest tool in the box rather than trying to wing it.

twice? knobhead!

P.s.

I was all too aware of exactly wot Westphalian said about the Knobhead ending btw!

My spelling may well be shite

but my reading comprehension be shit-hot!

 

PPs

Laziness/boredom, catching up on an unmisspent youth, etc etc

Were my reasons not not completing my degree, oh, that and an inability to "do" the hard sums, integration in particular.

PPPPPS

You sure got a good memory, as wuz alluded too elsewhere earlier

 

my error, now edited

 

PPS to the xxxx PS

Two different posters the "knobhead un an the vehicilist one btw

cheers

mth

Edited June 29, 2018 by difflock

[westphalian]

I must be an old bigot Gobby cos if you showed up at my place to give me a quote on dismantling a 40ft Ash with a blue Mohawk I’d sooner give the job to someone who said be’jesus after every sentence

[Haironyourchest]

Actually I.Q is very dependent on education and environment. Mexicans usrd to average 80 on tests in the USA, but their average is increasing. The Irish used to be 80 too, when IQ tests were invented, but the national average climbed over the decades and now it's on par with the States, British etc. It's a silly metric of intellegence anyway, as it's only about visual pattern recognition and such, so a very narrow mental application. I know people with genius level IQ who are clueless at the simplest practical tasks...

[difflock]

Hoyc,

I doubt intelligence levels in the populations you quote have changed so very much, or rather it is much more likely the tests have changed.

I agree however about excess intelligence possibly being a liability, at St. Andrews (when I was courting the wife) some of her friends were extremely intelligent, but virtually dysfunctional/unemployable.

Like one bloke was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Astrophysics/Nuclear Physics despite being absent most of his final year, due to a nervous breakdown, but he was so ferociously intelligent the degree was awarded purely  on merit

As I commented earlier, one needs a balance.

regards

Marcus

Edited June 29, 2018 by difflock

[Vespasian]

5 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

Actually I.Q is very dependent on education and environment. Mexicans usrd to average 80 on tests in the USA, but their average is increasing. The Irish used to be 80 too, when IQ tests were invented, but the national average climbed over the decades and now it's on par with the States, British etc. It's a silly metric of intellegence anyway, as it's only about visual pattern recognition and such, so a very narrow mental application. I know people with genius level IQ who are clueless at the simplest practical tasks...

A narrow mental application..  you say it like it means nothing..  Look at Europe and China/Japan..  

 

Not much difference in IQ now look at Africa or the middle east..  

 

Its because of people with high IQ's that we can speak to each other across the internet.   without high IQ groups and individuals we'd still be chasing Tigers round Africa in loincloths.

 

Having a high IQ sub group in any population predicts whether that population's society can function in the modern age or not..

 

About this mythical friend we all have who's as bright as a spark but useless at wiring a plug.. I'll hazard a guess he's raking in more money than the rest of us if got to look at his pay slip..  must be a right thick c**t on the quiet..

 

Truth is, IQ matters, it matters to individuals and it matters that we have as much higher IQ people in our society as we can get our hands on..   

These people are the ones that are keeping the rest of us employed..  

 

 

 

 

[Ty Korrigan]

27 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

 

 "without high IQ groups and individuals we'd still be chasing Tigers round Africa in loincloths"

 

 

Oh dear...

 Stuart

[devon TWiG]

21 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

 

Oh dear...

 Stuart

I do not think Vesp would pass the IQ section on wildlife and geography !!!!    Tigers are not found in Africa !!   ( except in zoos )

[Bolt]

 

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

 

According to mumsnet, some people think tigers are female lions

Edited June 29, 2018 by Bolt

[Bolt]

Not that i know what mumsnet is.....

[westphalian]

I did an IQ test once. Scored 80%. That’s grade “A” in anyone’s book