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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: Intelligence
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 15:14:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 15:14:32 1985
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> Screening on intelligence alone narrows my choices to less than 2%  of  the
> general  population.  From that reduced pool I have to find people who meet
> my other criteria for compatability (brains aren't everything  (-:  ),  and
> from _that_ tiny minority I have to find those who find _me_ acceptable.

  Jerry, I'm really surprised. From previous postings I've always thought of
you as a very sensitive and open-minded person, but this sounds like a really 
closed attitude.  Have you ever even *tried* dating a woman who doesn't score 
as high as you did on those IQ tests? And even if you did, and had a bad
experience, does that necessarily mean it could *never* work out with someone
like that? It seems to me that *any* selection criteria that eliminates 98%
of the candidates is self-defeating. It sounds to me like you have a belief
about what people who score lower than you on IQ tests are like, and you are
unwilling to open your mind up to being wrong about it, even to the point
of eliminating 98% of women as possibilities. My advice to you is open your
mind to a relationship not necessarily looking like this picture you have in
your mind about it. You might be pleasantly surprised sometime.

--Greg
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