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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Intelligence
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> > While it's true that intelligence may be more highly valued among many adults,
> > it's also true that the kids at the fringes of the group (both ends of the
> > normal curve) often get treated rather shabbily.
> 
>   This is a very accurate observation, and applies to other attributes equally
> well as it does to intelligence. The only exception to this seems to be
> athletic ability among males, where the better you are, the more you are
> respected in a linear relationship. (Is there a female equivalent to this? 
> While I recognize that females participate in sports too, there doesn't seem
> to be the social "pecking order" among girls based on athletic ability as
> there is among the boys)

Actually in my school (an all-girls school) the pecking order was also based
on athle,tic ability.
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Sophie Quigley
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