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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (J.WINER)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence
Summary: Most people can't walk or drive
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Date: 31 Jul 89 13:48:55 GMT
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> Mark William Hopkins writes:

> If you can walk or drive, you have visualization, if you can pack
> items in a  box, you have abstraction.  If you can make career
> decisions for yourself, you  have the ability to have prfound
> thoughts.  Too many people take too much of their hidden cognitive
> powers for granted.  Even speaking and understanding human language
> requires all of these skills in considerable magnitude.

Your powers of observations are appaling. Find someone at your
university who is an actor and ask him/her to help you observe how
people walk. What you'll find is that well over 50% of the
population cannot properly balance their own bodies while
walking. Most adults (who haven't been trained to walk) move very
much like toddlers with little regard for their own center of
gravity. If an actor can't help you with this, ask a tai chi guru
who has been trained to topple people who haven't learned to pay
attention to their center of gravity.

Similarly, try riding as a passenger instead of driving and watch
how the people around you control a car. Again, over 50% of the
population does not look where they are going when changing lanes or
backing up. Or, if you're too paranoid to ride with someone else, go
to one of the racing driving schools and learn for yourself how to
really control a car -- then you'll really be scared of the idiots
on the road.

Putting items in boxes is also known as stereotyping. I agree the
human race is very good at this. It does not seem very intelligent,
however, but simply corresponds to lazyness and a lack of ability to
deal with individuals items.

And then ask yourself (or one of the psychology professors at your
university) what the big three problems are that take people to
shrinks. Surprize! dissatisfaction with the job is one of them! It
seems that most people really aren't very good at making career
decisions for themselves.

And lastly, notice how articulate some of the articles are here on
the net. Your presumption that most people can even speak and
understand a human language is debatable at best.

Premise: The majority of Americans (and the vast majority of the
world) cannot walk, drive, make career decisions, or speak and
understand any human language well enough to prove anything except a
lack of intelligence. The majority are good at stereotyping. You
lose on 4 out of 5.

Conclusion: you're just not very good at seeing the world around you,
but you are very good at stereotyping. I suggest a course in
remedial data acquisition.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi (Usually unable to reply to email outside AT&T)

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