-=> ALAN HESS wrote to MIMI GALLANDT <=-

 AH> Whilst masticating on , Mimi Gallandt (1:275/311)
 AH> wrote to Richard Helm:

 RH>>Many far removed from _NORMAL_ do also.  Some with IQ's near 25
 RH>>are more _NORMAL_ than one with 137 IQ.  Their small buckets are
 RH>>full. Often overflowing with care.

 MG> Yes, that is true. I've done some volunteer work with ARC and
 MG> "slow" people aren't all screwed up with hate and anger and just
 MG> want to love people, some of the sweetest kindest people I've
 MG> ever known are "slow". You're not buying into the obvious lie
 MG> that Wayne has (or ever had) an IQ of 137 are you?

 AH> I've never seen a reason to mention my I.Q. in an echo, and I don't
 AH> plan to (I did on one web board years ago, in a thread that directed
 AH> users to an I.Q. test site and asked them to post results.  I don't
 AH> know how accurate those tests are, but I must admit that, in my case,
 AH> the test result almost exactly matched the result of an I.Q. test a
 AH> psychologist had given me a few years before.) Why is such information
 AH> pertinent to a political echo?  Having a high I.Q. doesn't mean a
 AH> person can't do stupid things, or make stupid decisions, just as a low
 AH> I.Q. person isn't damned to never do anything smart.

 AH> Wayne may have a 137 I.Q., but that has nothing to do with deciding
 AH> political positions.  *adh*

Wayne hasn't had an IQ of 137 in quite some time.
Tested in H.S. it was 137 and among the top 2 percent.
Tested in in 1995 I only ranked in the top 5 percent whatever
that translates to.
Today rather less and on the decline.


 
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