Reply to: Do you find most people annoyingly thick?

[BrilloPad]

I find sasguru annoyingly cretinous.

[Old Greg]

Why? I have one. Also a degree in Engineering and am completing a Masters in Mathematics this year.
I think narrow-minded cretins who make generalisations should probably suffer the consequences you state.

QED

[oscarose]

Why? I have one. Also a degree in Engineering and am completing a Masters in Mathematics this year.
I think narrow-minded cretins who make generalisations should probably suffer the consequences you state.

Thought you'd retired old chap?

[sasguru]

An MBA should mean instant loss of voting privileges, enforced sterilisation and removal of any existing offspring to a place of safety, and exile to one of the less hospitable corners of Rockall. In other words, a just and proportionate response to an act of incalculable folly.

Why? I have one. Also a degree in Engineering and am completing a Masters in Mathematics this year.
I think narrow-minded cretins who make generalisations should probably suffer the consequences you state.

[MarillionFan]

I think that the score of a hundred is by definition the average.

From wikipedia...

That's still two SD, which says that there are still a good number with an IQ less than 70.

And they mostly all post on here.

[Spacecadet]

To try and look at this objectively, the average IQ in the UK is just over 100, apparently.
Now how they arrive at that figure, who knows. But if that's true, then there's a shedload of people below 100, and that's quite worrying, especially around election time.

I think that the score of a hundred is by definition the average.

From wikipedia...

When modern IQ tests are devised, the mean (average) score within an age group is set to 100 and the standard deviation (SD) almost always to 15, although this was not always so historically.[1] Thus the intention is that approximately 95% of the population scores within two SDs of the mean, i.e. has an IQ between 70 and 130.

[Gonzo]

To try and look at this objectively, the average IQ in the UK is just over 100, apparently.
Now how they arrive at that figure, who knows. But if that's true, then there's a shedload of people below 100, and that's quite worrying, especially around election time.

IQ scores are a normal distribution so for every genius there will also be a gurning ****tard.

It wont vary by nationality either but it is difficult to set the tests with zero language or cultural bias which results in different 'average' results for different countries.

[realityhack]

To try and look at this objectively, the average IQ in the UK is just over 100, apparently.
Now how they arrive at that figure, who knows. But if that's true, then there's a shedload of people below 100, and that's quite worrying, especially around election time.

[Spacecadet]

Irony in 3...2...1...



There it is

I was going to make that point anyway but then read Xog's post which had a very similar theme.

[minestrone]

WHS

and ironically the internet with its almost boundless amounts of freely available knowledge, search engines and forums actually seems to make people even thicker.
Group think has become the curse of the internet

We agree.

[NickFitz]

WHS

Irony in 3...2...1...

Group think has become the curse of the internet

There it is

[Spacecadet]

Thick no, illogical and averse to actually checking facts before venturing opinions, yes.

WHS

and ironically the internet with its almost boundless amounts of freely available knowledge, search engines and forums actually seems to make people even thicker.
Group think has become the curse of the internet

[NickFitz]

...managers with MBAs...

An MBA should mean instant loss of voting privileges, enforced sterilisation and removal of any existing offspring to a place of safety, and exile to one of the less hospitable corners of Rockall. In other words, a just and proportionate response to an act of incalculable folly.

[doodab]

You still don't get it.

Apparently not. However I have made some progress. By bowing to your superior intellect and powers of reasoning I have concluded that this is because

It sounds like you're too stupid to be able to communciate with people properly.

[xoggoth]

Thick no, illogical and averse to actually checking facts before venturing opinions, yes.