dn> My original point is that users of all compilers have the same number of
 dn> 'morons' as users. There may well be some truth to the demography though,
 dn> but I can't stretch my imagination far enough to see any direct connection
 dn> between intelligence and income.

Although this wasn't my original intention, you happen to be wrong here
anyway. H.J. Eysenck, "Know Your Own IQ", ISBN 0 14 01.3518 9
page 28, "Other studies have correlated I.Q. with money earnings,
showing that there also a distinct relationship could be
demonstrated".

There is also an interesting table in the book:

PROFESSIONAL GROUP                        IQ
                                  Parents    Children
1. Higher professional and
   administrative                     153      120

2. Lower professional; technical
   and executive                      132      115

3. Highly skilled; clerical           117      110

4. Skilled                            109      105

5. Semi-skilled                        98       97

6. Unskilled                           87       92

7. Casual                              82       89

8. Institutional                       57       67


The thing I found most interesting about this chart was that at the top,
the children had a lower IQ than their parents, whilst at the bottom the
reverse was true.

I'm sure if a study was done on programming language used, C Programmers
would come up above Basic Programmers too.  BFN.

Paul

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